To help better understand the opportunities and barriers to soil and water conservation in the Western Lake Erie Basin Worked with the Michigan Association of Conservation Districts (MACD) and the county Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Lena...

Work with the Lansing Regional Sister City Commission to develop a youth initiative to celebrate the assets of youth of diverse backrounds in Lansing Region.

U.S. Kettlebell Sport Lifting is the U.S. arm of the International Union of Kettlebell Lifters (IUKL). IUKL has received observer status for the upcoming Olympic Games with the goal to include kettlebell sports as an official event in the 2024 Olympi...

Class Social Movements and Collective Identities (Soc 481) All students volunteered with a social movement organization in the greater Lansing area or virtually. These included: Metro Lansing Poor People's Campaign Meta Peace Team Planned Parenthood ...

Present in a series of public meetings, recommendations and countermeasures for improving safe movement of pedestrian and bicyclists to/from select schools.

MSU extension office with Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Update and educate on vaccinations for all age groups One format focused on community And one specific to medical clinicians

I do a continuing series of presentations to school and community groups, as well as medical professionals, on concussions and athlete health.

I am part of a group, selected by Gov. Whitmer to study, examine our research and then recommend changes for women and girls in sports in Michigan.

This was an in-person workshop to teach farmers drainage design

With my coordination the MSU CANR WorldTAP team organized this training virtually with 41 international participants on attendance. This six-day long (Nov 9-14, 2020) training covered various aspects of food safety including food safety policies, the...

The Global Business Club serves as a critical bridge linking Michigan exporters and allies with a wealth of university research-driven resources, often available to the business community at no cost. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Global Business ...

The SOLID Start project (Science, Oral Language, and Literacy Development from the Start of School) develops professional development opportunities for K-2 teachers that integrates science and literacy. The project also develops standards-based, inte...

Co-Coordinated the annual three-day educational sessions for greenhouse growers in Michigan and beyond

I work with a federally funded program Gosspal against AIDS We go to various black communities and black religious organizations and educate black clergy, youth and others on HIV Recently we have been educating these groups on covid 19 Myths and trut...

I do HIV/HCV education in the state of Michigan to the community but also sit on state boards of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to make recommendations to the state on policies for HIV and HCV

Collaborated with Detroit schools and service agencies to provide literacy instruction to Detroit children and families

Co-lead on university wide project seeking APLU IEP designation. Actions include conversations with internal and external stakeholders regarding Michigan State University relationship and initiatives in community and economic development with emphasi...

Applied research into solving production, post harvest, and value added processing challenges and needs for producers and cooperatives and users.

This was a continuation of work started in 2019, a collaboration with Merit Networks and 15 rural, Michigan school districts. This outreach-research activity was designed to understand the repercussions of absent or poor home Internet connectivity on...

The activity is an effort to develop conceptual frameworks, methods, and tools to help overcome the discrepancies in access to high-speed Internet connect in Michigan. This project bagan in 2017. Over this academic year work was primarily on sharing ...

MSU Adolescent Diversion Program (ADP) is a two semester service-learning program operating in conjunction with Michigan State University and Ingham County Probate Court. The aim of this program is to divert adolescents in legal jeopardy from the juv...

The goal of the Senior Ambassador Program is to build relationships between students and senior citizens in the area. It was started as an initiative to combat loneliness in the area.

The goal of the Opioid Prevention Education Network through Michigan State University (OPEN-MSU) is to build the capacity of local efforts to create or expand opioid prevention, intervention, and treatment opportunities for low-income communities. OP...

I provide services to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change - academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work - a partnersh...

Goal of project is to identify and understand key challenges facing PK-12 schools in Michigan's rural areas. To understand how current state policies relate to these challenges, and identify potential changes in policy that would improve circumstance...