I co-chair the Committee that plans this annual event. We work closely with mid-Michigan Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting Agencies, as well as local community members, and representatives from Lansing Community College and Davenport University. Each...

This annual one-day conference highlights current and emerging issues in the Great Lakes and surrounding basin. Attendees, composed of agency personnel, educators, NGO representatives, students, and interested individuals, have the opportunity for an...

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...

Sport-based life skills interventions offer compelling pathways to enhancing youth agency, psychosocial development, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Evidence shows the benefits of sport programs to youth empowerment, promoting health and wel...

Oil painting series titled Why Don't You Smile More featured in a March 2022 fine art exhibit and online show addressing the expectations of women in society.

Flint Is Family in Three Acts is a multipart exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan—Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan—as t...

Planning Practicum is a Capstone course in Urban and Regional Planning. Students work in teams on community-based planning projects with a community, public sector client. The course takes on six projects a year.

Launched in 2016, Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation is a comprehensive, national, and community-based process to plan for and bring about sustainable change and address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.

Served as an expert contributor to an amicus brief filed with the California Supreme Court. The brief requests that the court grant review of a challenge to the intentional misgendering provision of a California bill (S.B. 219). The brief includes em...

Presented results from scholarship in trans medicine to public audiences, health organizations, clinics, and health professionals.

Collaborated with local school districts to understand the relationship between student academic achievement and well-being and digital inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provided multiple interviews to various local and national media outlets (television, online, and print) focusing on impacts of legally restricting abortion access; proposed legislation limiting health care to transgender and nonbinary youth and adul...

Hosted three regional programs (Detroit, Macomb, Lansing) over the course of eight weeks at varying times of the year to expose high school students to medicine and health care-related careers. The goal is to create a pathway for students from underr...

The North Central Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Center funds working groups each year. These working groups cover a broad array of topics ‒ from crop-related groups to urban ag IPM, school IPM, tick IPM, pollinator and monarch conservation, etc....

The goal of the academy is to introduce students in grades 7-12 to careers in seven biological STEM disciplines in agriculture and natural resources and to engage students in hands-on exercises related to these disciplines. The disciplines are animal...

The Michigan Farm to ECE Network collaborates so children ages birth to 5 can grow, choose, and eat nutritious, local food in early care and education settings. Farm to ECE in Michigan includes local food sourcing, nutrition education, and gardening....

Organized symposium and webinars on PFAS contamination. Testified at the Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Field hearing on interagency collaboration. Also organized an annual retreat and semiregular meetings with the...

Capacity-building for community organizations and local governments to support opioid prevention and treatment efforts.

Partnership with Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan and Michigan Tribes to explore the cultural supports for the development of young children.

Serve on the board of the Children's Palliative Care Coalition, a group of palliative care providers, social workers, nurses, and families working to promote and raise awareness of the need for palliative care services, advocate for legislation to ge...

This in-service project designed and delivered 80 training events, in person and online, to educate and train veteran child welfare workers in Michigan agencies.

Revision of the materials for Middle School Mathematics Teachers. Professional Learning for the Teachers and Leaders using the materials in field test.

Organized Cystic Fibrosis Art and Science Event at Wharton, Center where local students and faculty presented their research and exhibits featured the work of Dylan Mortimer, an artist with CF. The goal was to merge art and science in celebration of ...

In partnership with the Michigan Department Health and Human Services' Office of Workforce Development Team, provide in-service trainings to child welfare agency workers and caregivers on multiple topics to assist them in carrying out their respectiv...