We presented a season from Sept. to Dec. and two multi-hour live stream broadcasts in conjunction with SG Dublin and SG Atlanta, and roughly fifteen programming events, focussed on design, both as a form of control, and as a means of community empowe...

Tribal Early Childhood Research Center; Build network of tribal early childhood program administrators, TTA providers, federal partners, and researchers to develop a tribal early childhood research agenda. Together, we 1) train emerging scholars, 2) ...

Suggested the novel and then facilitated a discussion among all of the employees of this non-profit organization based in Detroit. Toni Morrison's SULA led to a wonderful discussion of literature, the genre of the novel, and issues of gender, sexuali...

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

This is a long-term advisory group role in partnership with Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library. Shiffman serves as NLM National Outreach Library with the goal of disseminating trusted health care and scientific research information to ...

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...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Furthermore, in the last 40 years the incarceration of girls and women has grown by 834% according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United Stat...

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: A...

Silenced: Voices from Solitary confronts the difficult topic of solitary confinement and isolation within the United States prison system by forwarding the work of a group of talented artists, many of whom have experienced solitary firsthand. Bearing...

I designed and implemented an intensive one-week virtual summer music education program with colleagues in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was free of charge for all attendees and helped to fill a void with many summer programs cancelled due to th...

This is an ongoing standing committee in the field to increase the presence and voice of bipoc communities, specifically native Americans, to build welcoming spaces and collaborative research

The continued construction of the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) database provides access to the world's literature about the design, construction, and maintenance of grass-like surfaces for use in landscape, utility, and sporting surfaces. This s...

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...

The mission of the Lansing Latino Health Alliance is to improve the health of Latinos in Lansing. In the last year we have been involved in several activities including coordinating a flu vaccination clinic at Cristo Rey Church, collaborating with In...

Consulted with community organizations in Michigan about digitizing, sharing, describing, and preserving cultural heritage materials

Documentation, public programming, exhibition development, and virtual programming.

Webinars, public programs, exhibitions, and documentation.

Design work and Education Outreach Programs for Williamston Theatre involving a broad-reaching student/internship environment. Issues: Technical production, workshops presented in Design Implementation, Problem Solving, Creative Research, and workpla...

Preparation of talks on opera-themed topics deriving from my musicological research on the critical editions of Verdi, Donizetti and Puccini

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...

follow up on research to document lack of access to water and sanitation in the United States: 1) helped finalize case studies for communities struggling with access to water and sanitation that they can use to advocate for improved access 2) worked...

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 ...

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...