This week, I really enjoyed the Antiracism and Environmental Justice presentations! During Tuesday’s meeting, the privilege “walk” made me realize I’m privileged in more ways than I had ever thought about. I never used to consider “not having to rely on public transportation” or “having a computer at home” as areas of privilege and always […]
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A learning group presentation that stood out to me was the privilege presentation. When I first talked about privilege with a group of students my age, I was at my old community college. In this sociology class, I was one of three black people. My professor had everyone in the class take a survey to determine
Every summer I tend to get into sustainability. Although, this summer it feels like I never fell into that mindset of trying to be environmentally conscious. Therefore, I am glad the environmental justice group had us take the carbon footprint quiz. It is upsetting that just by myself and my daily habits would need 3.6
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This tuesday the anti racism group presented. Their presentation was both entertaining and educational. One part that stood out to me was the anti-racist part; they said something along the lines of it should not be racist and non racist, it should be labeled racist and anti racist. That really made me understand what needs
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Hello Everyone! I don’t really know what to talk about for this week’s prompt, however I couldn’t stop thinking about environmental justice. (Kudos to the group! and Lillith and Myla!) I am vegetarian and was vegan until college. I’ve done a lot of research about Big Agriculture and eating (and buying) clean, meaning without animals.
Hey everyone! This week, I wanted to reflect on the learning group presentations so far. The anti-racism group did an amazing job, and the presentation afterwards was just as powerful. I found the virtual privilege walk to be particularly eye-opening. There were many instances of privilege that I had simply not considered before, like being
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Sometimes starting a blog post on here feels like sitting down to speak into a void, but kind of in a comforting way. Anyways, I wanted to utilize this week’s blog post as a time to think about some of the incredible people I have met in the past month and a half, and think
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I’m starting this lil’ talk about How to Kill a City. Now, from the jump, the author stated, “…poorer cities such as […] Detroit, where gentrification and tourism are some of the only economic engines keeping the cities from bankruptcy. Our cities’ economies are sick”. And it was a hard pill to swallow: the city
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Our guest speaker on week 5, Deandre Calvert, was very interesting to hear about public policy and how organizations are heard. It’s a little cheating because policy does come up at my site, however, my site isn’t focused on policy so it’s fine. It just reminded me of the fact that my organization which is
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On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to attend the Detroit Policy Conference, held at The Aretha right on the river. There were big-name guest speakers, like Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Lt. Governor Garlin Gilcrest, Head Coach of the Detroit Pistons Dwane Casey, as well as Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. The keynote speaker of the
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