Served as a member of a steering committee for the webinar series for K-12 teachers organized by the Michigan Department of Education. Also offered two segments of the webinar.

Directed a program that placed students in Detroit and Lansing as community engagement scholars and trained them in best practices as a cohort.

This exhibition explores public art in the Greater Lansing region. Public art takes many forms and is an important part of the landscape; it also often means different things to different people. Art Along the River, Grand celebrates the public art i...

The Michigan State University Organic Farmer Training Program (OFTP) brings together farmworkers, aspiring farmers, homesteaders, educational garden leaders and new farmers to share their farm goals and chart a course toward that vision. In 2022 the ...

Help plan Muslim Journeys programming hosted by MSU Libraries and the Muslim studies program. Participated in planning committee meetings and arranged for speaker at the East Lansing Public Library.

This event included an after-hours opportunity to view the exhibition Zaha Hadid Design: Untold; a lecture by historian Edward Curtis IV, author of the new book Muslims of the Heartland; and a book signing.

Co-founder of the New Music Forum, a nascent mutual aid society devoted to experimentalism in the performing arts. The forum hosts a monthly concert series in partnership with the Turner-Dodge House in Lansing attended by diverse community members.

Shared lessons about One Health from a veterinary medical view with undergraduate students.

This is a new service-learning course for the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Many students gain early clinical experience through community-based service experiences. This course allows that to occur within a credit-bearing, academic context.

Trained over 500 staff across Michigan to better respond to online sexual misconduct.

Carole Gibbons and her team interviewed youth service workers and youth with experiences with community violence in Lansing. To build relationships and further collaboration, constructed a project logic model to disseminate results to those we interv...

Attended by 600 family members and students at Bennet Woods Elementary. Activities included dissecting an owl pellet; bandaging a leg; and doing a physical exam on a stuffed animal. Fifteen veterinary medicine students assisted.

Multiple diverse children's books written about encouraging peace and justice were shared. The books were written by authors of various backgrounds and contained characters of different cultural and ethnic identities.

The social work continuing education program provides relevant and accessible professional development and training guided by the school’s social justice and positive change mission to social workers and human services professionals across the stat...

Each year the social work continuing education program provides relevant and accessible professional development and training guided by the social justice and positive change mission of our school to social workers and human services professionals ac...

Volunteer at science night at elementary school.

Appointed to a team of teachers, administrators, parents, and community members that conducted a Systemic Equity Review of the Lansing School District beginning August 17, 2021 and concluding March 16, 2022. The review was led by WestEd, an organizat...

Serve as at-large board member of the City of East Lansing Downtown Development Authority and Brownfields Redevelopment Authority.

Project involved creating designs for a TOD on a former factory site, reclaiming the post-industrial landscape, and providing visions for a higher intensity mixed-use development linked and embedded with existing and future public transportation oppo...

Taught community members to make Ukrainian Easter eggs as part of a fundraiser to support Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Upward Bound supports participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in their pre-college performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits. Upward Bound serves high ...

Met with 35 students to provide lessons on veterinary nursing and medicine career paths and options. Students were provided a tour of the College of Veterinary Medicine clinic and clinical laboratories.

Funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the goal of the Youth Physical Activity and Well-being (YPAW) project is to demonstrate that if youth (ages 8-14 years) are exposed to a physical activity-based life skills and socio-emotional learning pr...

Architecture Tour of the MSU Broad Art Museum led by Assistant Curator Rachel Winter, including a walkthrough of the exhibition Zaha Hadid Design: Untold, which explores the life and creative practice of the building's architect, Zaha Hadid, and the ...

World-renowned architect and designer Zaha Hadid is known for her dazzling forms that defy expectations, and for her dynamic approach to design—one that matched her vivacious personality. In 2008, Hadid was announced as the winner of an internation...