This project addresses production, market, financial, and legal risk management issues, and seeks to better inform beginning, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers how to identify and mitigate risk, navigate disas...

The project addressed management and mitigation approaches related to production, financial, and human risks and provide information available to beginning, Latino, limited resources (LR), and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers on h...

A research project conducted with Latino farmers.

Provided logistical and teaching support to faculty/ practitioners who include community engaged teaching and learning in their classrooms.

Students trained in coaching and teaching skills for high school string players in order to go out into the community in Spring 2022 and coach students at different high schools. They received training from area educators during Fall 2021 and observe...

Hosted Michigan's 18th annual World Usability Day event in November 2020. 328 people attended the event. The conference offered practical topics that are helpful to IT and user experience (UX) professionals to increase their UX design and/or usabilit...

CSS 424 is a project-based, experiential learning course. We foster student-partner projects that serve a variety of purposes; all projects aim to have a "real-world" end product that serves the community partner or broader sustainable agriculture mo...

training school professionals in pain-focused CBT for students. Conducted workshops with school nurses and health department workers (social workers and school nurses). Submitted grants for future funding.

Advisory board meetings to address cardiovascular health, cardiovascular health disparities in the community.

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

With a team of 7 NGOs serving beginning farmers, 6 extension educators and 5 members from Center for Regional Food Systems and myself we are developing curriculum that engages beginning farmer by providing technical information on production and mark...

I provided training in an established developmental screening system, the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) to three daycare/preschool centers in the central and southeastern regions of MI. The focus of the study was to understand feasibility of tr...

Why: The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was in...

The Okemos World Languages (OWL) Partnership is a collaborative project between Okemos Public Schools and Michigan State University (MSU), specifically the Teacher Preparation Program and the Center for Language Teaching Advancement. OWL is a bi-week...

Over the past two years, Michigan has worked to develop its farm to early care and education (ECE) infrastructure through a cross-sector statewide network focused on equity, the development of procurement pilots in priority communities, and technical...

Working with a committee to investigate the workforce development needs of public health workers in Michigan.

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

Support a cohort of Michigan-based hospitals and healthcare systems to advance their procurement of healthy, local foods from a diverse array of community based farm and food businesses. Convene partners, participate in group activities, conduct surv...

This USDA RMA Co-Operative Agreement Project is a one-year project that is educating adult small-scale farmers who identify as a person of color, BIPOC, socially-disadvantaged, underserved. We are providing outreach, engagement and zoom-based educati...

Participated in community-engaged longitudinal teaching and learning research study exploring the benefits and challenges of farmers markets. Producing a documentary film.

Treasurer and board member of the Lansing Latino Health Alliance, a nonprofit with a mission to reduce health disparities and improve the health status of Latinos in the Greater Lansing area.

Direct the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a six-week residency program in East Lansing for 25 young African leaders. The Fellows are required to do 15 hours of community service. They are placed as volunteers at local community organizations in Lansi...

The Sugar Smart Coalition is committed to advocacy, education, equitable practice, and policy that improves healthy food and beverage options and choice. The coalition's vision is to reduce added sugar consumption and its negative health impacts in M...

The goal of the Child Welfare Improvement Task Force is to support the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) in bringing about change and to improve the safe, fair, and equitable treatment of all Michigan’s children and families....

Michigan sits in the Mississippi Flyway and Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel work with Flyway representatives from other states and representatives of federal agencies to manage migratory waterfowl. These individuals set the paramet...