The Office of College Access Initiatives: Project #1 Upward Bound of MSU To prepare college bound high school students for success in post-secondary institutions. To follow and support underrepresented youth in post-secondary institutions. Classes ...

Pre-College Activity Programming Planning Policy development Practice

The building of a co-operative grocery store

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) is a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.

I am the principal investigator of Health in Our Hands. Funded by the Science Education Partnerships Award (National Institutes of Health), this project, lead by CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University in collaboration with the Health ...

Drawn primarily from the MSU Broad collection and grounded in matters relevant to our region, InterStates of Mind is an exhibition that takes a critical look at American car culture and the way that the automobile has become a symbol of American valu...

Continuation of a funded NIH, NIEHS K01 Career Award to examine the value of low-cost technology development created through a community driven research process in Flint, Michigan around water access, affordability, and quality. 2021 included the ini...

I work as a consultant to medical examiner's offices and law enforcement agencies to determine whether a bone is human or not, to perform search and recoveries, scientific identifications via comparative radiography, skeletal examinations to estimate...

I direct the MSU Forensic Anthropology Laboratory and we provide consultations to medical examiners and law enforcement across the state of Michigan. Our work includes scientific identification of decedents, skeletal analyses, skeletal trauma interpr...

This community-partnered study will scale a community, provider, and system-level implementation intervention to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent). We will test the interv...

The SPIRIT Trial is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms of the Safety Plan intervention in reducing suicide events among 800 individuals in the year after jail release.

Conducted effective outreach and engagement strategies in light of COVID-19 by working in conjunction with partnering agencies. Distribution of Flint Registry handouts and materials by partnering and collaborating with community partners as they se...

The Flint Registry is a project designed to support individuals who were impacted by an environmental injustice and exposed to a lead in water crisis. The project connects individuals who were exposed to services and resources to mitigate the impact ...

The Kinship Care Resource Center is one of several community programs in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. The KCRC serves kinship care families across the state by providing information and referrals to resources and services f...

Metro Community Development is a coordinated continuum of care organization and the convening fiduciary for a network of Genesee County organizations and agencies providing housing and services funding for homeless families and individuals. NCI was c...

Field placements for social work students.

Work with community identified and driven projects aimed at enhancing assets within the Flint community through an immersive 10-week internship in Summer 2021. This involved various types of community engaged research as well as work with partner org...

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...

I am a member of the Genesee County COVID-19 Taskforce which has convened nearly weekly for over a year. The taskforce has committees reflecting broad sectors of society: business, banking, government, health, faith, and philanthropy. Our focus is on...

As a member of the Greater Flint Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Inequities and the co-chair of the Faith Subcommittee, lead a team of researchers, faith leaders, policy influencers, and philanthropists to develop and maintain covid-19 outreach/publi...

“Breed & Bootleg: Legends of Flint Rap Music” is an hour-long film about the birth of rap music in the city in the early 1990s, beginning with the late MC Breed, known as the first commercially successful rap artist in the Midwest. “Ain’t No Future i...

"Breed & Bootleg — Legends of Flint Rap Music" is an hour-long documentary film about Eric "MC Breed" and Ira "Bootleg" Dorsey who are pioneers of the Midwest Rap sound. In 2021, the film screened at more than 25 venues that include the Flint Insti...

Provide coordination and technical assistance for the the Michigan Food Hub Network, a group of ~12 regional food distributors in Michigan. Goals of the network are to increase sales of local and regional foods, increase food access and farmer viabil...

I am conducting an evaluation of the Flint Leverage Points Project. The evaluation is designed to determine the extent to which the project is meeting its stated goals and objectives. Evaluative findings, conclusions and recommendations contribute to...

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...