On the wonderful day of July 7th, I turned the BIG 1 – 9 !! My father wanted to have a barbeque with my close friends, but we didn’t plan it. However, it happened without planning. Two of my close friends were in Detroit. My friend Chelsea had spent the weekend with me and my […]
On Thursday, I had an observation at the Citgo by Sinai Grace. I was suppose to do my obseravtion from 10:00 – 5:00. I was a little disappointed because at the Green Garage, our office, we were having live music, drinks, and sweet potato waffles from 4-6. However, I did not complete my observation because of differences. So,
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This summer has undeniably been a time for growth/learning for me on how to conduct community-based research. I learned a lot about working with other organizations and syncing research needs (it can be difficult to balance the mutual benefit of sharing data between organizations with individual needs of the researcher/the organization they represent). I learned
Week 6 @ Detroit 300 — So you think you can research: audience demographics version Read More »
This week at FocusHOPE has been a lot of getting back to the grind of work! I finally did learn about my second project though. I will be helping out with a Focus group on how to improve pedestrian safety along a stretch of davison. Since they are trying to keep the event as laid
This week was a little different. I was given a lot of little projects to do which were cool because I thought they were kinda fun. First my supervisor asked if I could color code the status of businesses in our community on a map of all 5 neighborhoods. Each map has little boxes called
Week 6 – Taking Pics of Houses … and stuff Read More »
Today was a bit of an interesting day, to say the least: I talked to the police and exercised some knowledge from our IGR seminar. First, the police. Nothing major happened and I am 100% okay, in case anyone was worried. No, it was a minor security alarm mishap. After my meeting with one of
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I have grown a strong liking for community meetings though they often mean a longer day. Part of what I’ve been doing in this project is establishing a database of contacts and evaluating the best way to draw people to the monthly meetings for their zone. Since we had the greatest number of contacts for
I’ve only been working with the Detroit Food Academy for five weeks and it’s like I’ve been here for months. To clarify, I really enjoy being apart of this organization and I would not trade to anyone, but spending a significant amount of time anywhere draws you in. Jen and Amy (my supervisors) are just
The past 5 weeks (I still can’t believe FIVE weeks have gone by) have been a whirlwind. Fellowship wise, I get to know so many great people and attend so many inspiring events. Project wise, I was just trying to get my literature reviews done. My deadline was July 5th so I really needed to
Feeling accomplished! Read More »
Hi all, Since the Focus: HOPE organization was closed this past week, I was tasked with continuing with certain parts of my project that I can complete remotely. Since we had the flexibility of working remotely I packed my bags and returned to my hometown, Chicago, since it was the last time I could visit
