By Sylvia Rodriguez, Amanda Gebre, and Gabriela Gaytan-Aguirre Gaby: From the start, we all put forth skills we deemed necessary to navigate the journey we setourselves on. In gaining the funding from BLI, it allowed us to curate events to cater tobroadening student experiences and perspectives. Through our experience in creating eventscentered around creating connections, […]
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By Tess Carichner As a nursing major who has a lifetime of experience and participation in the disability community, integrating my disability cultural values into my college transition and general life work has always been important to me. I lead a group called Disability Justice @ Michigan and work in the Digital Accessible Futures Lab,
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By Sadie Esch Laurent The BLI grant helped pay for a summer studying and working in Dublin. I interned at a hotel andtook two classes during my two months in Ireland. My main challenge was that my internshipwas not as it was initially described. Before starting, I was told certain tasks that I would bedoing
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By Colleen Hardman Thanks to the Barger Leadership Student Grant, I was able to take the Leadership in Energyand Environmental Design Green Associate exam through the United States Green BuildingCouncil, an organization that is focused on sustainability within the building industry throughboth revitalization of existing infrastructure and the creation of new buildings. This certificationserves as
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By Porter Selfridge What happens when you take the wolf-man of Ann Arbor, Dungeons andDragons, and a bunch of students who love filmmaking? You get Natural One.After writing the script over the summer, putting together an independentteam of artists, and finding the perfect location for our film to be set, BLIhelped us achieve our goal
By, Elizabeth Tolrud When beginning the STF workshops, I will readily admit that I was expecting a linear process. I thought I would enter these workshops, get a bit of advice on how to narrow my program idea, learn how to create a budget and be on my way out. I had no idea how
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The Social Transformation Workshops provided a really helpful opportunity to learn about project development with staff coaching, catered learning, and community-building that was unique across the University of Michigan campus. As our team is planning to host a health equity conference in Winter 2023, we joined the program to learn the skills needed to put
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The Social Transformation Fellowship has taught me about the logistics of creating a large-scale social change project, and the cooperation and support it takes from so many others (individuals and organizations). I learned the specifics of budgeting, the significance of learning from relevant stakeholders, and the importance of networking. It was incredible to work with
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During the four workshops that we attended this term, I believe we learned a variety of valuable information that we have been able to apply to our project. For instance, one thing we learned from the first workshop was how to identify the root cause of our project idea. The root causes analysis exercise allowed
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The Social Transformation Fellowship has taught me about the logistics of creating a large-scale social change project, and the cooperation and support it takes from so many others (individuals and organizations). I learned the specifics of budgeting, the significance of learning from relevant stakeholders, and the importance of networking. It was incredible to work with
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