{"id":5793,"date":"2015-06-25T22:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:17","slug":"week-four-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2015\/06\/25\/week-four-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Four: the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe that I have lived in Detroit for a month now. I still kind of feel like the newbie at the office, but the people at DHDC have been extremely welcoming and friendly. When I walk into the office each day, I am greeted with a smile and buenos dias<\/em> by various co-workers. I really enjoy the people at my workplace, and I have learned so much from them already. From self-esteem to community organizing to being more culturally aware, my-coworkers have taught me a lot of important lessons.<\/p>\n

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Detroit at sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The work culture at DHDC is pretty relaxed and entertaining, although everyone clearly works hard to help the community. There is a diverse mix of long-time staff and young, new staff (ages 60+ to 18). The staff is also pretty diverse in race\/ethnicity, but with a (not surprisingly) Hispanic majority. Employees are allowed to bring their kids in, so there are usually a few youngins playing around the office. DHDC has strong values, and I have a lot of respect for that. The founder, Angie, is a power-women. I heard her in an NPR interview on my home from work today! She clearly has a passion for improving the Southwest community, and combatting communal issues.<\/p>\n

At DHDC, we speak strictly spanglish. My co-workers are constantly switching between Spanish and English, which at first took some getting used to, but I think I\u2019ve got the hang of it now! I am still trying to improve my Spanish speaking skills and to engage in Spanish conversation whenever possible. It\u2019s a work in progress\u2026<\/p>\n

Working at DHDC has made me think more about what I often take for granted, such as citizenship. Every time I drive my car, the idea\/fear of getting deported never crosses my mind. However, for undocumented immigrants, this fear is real and happens everyday. My co-worker was telling me the other day that before her husband got his papers straight, she used to fear that every time he called her, that it could be a deportation call. How scary is that? Or how about applying to college? Some children are brought to the U.S. at a very young age and don\u2019t have correct documents. Although they have lived in this country for most of their lives, many cannot get in-state tuition at universities, making it unaffordable for most undocumented students. These people come her for a better life and more opportunities, but at times, it can feel entrapping.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall, I\u2019m happy that I received the Detroit Hispanic Development as my summer placement, and I\u2019m looking forward to the next 6 weeks! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here are side-by-side pictures of a building that I see almost every day. The bottom picture was taken the first week, and the top, this week. Its amazing how different Detroit looks depending on the weather. Sunny = hopeful. Cloudy\/rain = desolate.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to believe that I have lived in Detroit for a month now. I still kind of feel like the newbie at the office, but the people at DHDC have been extremely welcoming and friendly. When I walk into the office each day, I am greeted with a smile and buenos dias by various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcbrp-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16168,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/16168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}