Conduct participatory research including scenario workshops, interviews, and planning. Co-create products based on research results for community audiences, attend community events, create tools for community use.

Conducting a five-year participatory, utilization-focused evaluation of the Flint Leverage Points Project. Working collaboratively with researchers and community members, identified evaluation questions of greatest importance to stakeholders and work...

Since 2015, the C.S. Mott Foundation and MSU K-12 Outreach have partnered toward the shared goal of providing a high-quality education to every child in Flint. MSU K-12 Outreach’s interventions build capacity in administrative systems, enhance clas...

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...

The Greater Flint Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Inequities is committed to bringing awareness, analysis, and action to the root causes of disparities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in order to ensure racial equity within and across organiza...

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.

Formed during the water crisis, this multisector network continues to be tasked with creating trusted recovery communication to Flint residents, especially those who are hard to reach. The group meets biweekly, receiving updates from the City of Flin...

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...

The Flint Registry is designed to connect individuals impacted by the Flint water crisis to services and programs that mitigate the impact of lead exposure on health and child development. The Flint Registry has enrolled over 21,000 individuals and m...

This is a National Institutes of Health funded R01 randomized trial comparing two counseling interventions for depression and PTSD following miscarriage, stillbirth, and death of a newborn. The program offers free counseling to women anywhere in Mich...

Since 2015, the C.S. Mott Foundation and MSU K-12 Outreach have partnered to work toward the shared goal of providing a high-quality education to every child in Flint. MSU K-12 Outreach’s interventions build capacity in administrative systems, enha...

The Fellowship of Instructional Leaders program will provide yearlong, ongoing professional development to build instructional leadership capacity. With all Flint Community Schools participating, the fellowship has become a district-wide initiative d...

The Fellowship of Instructional Leaders program will provide yearlong, ongoing professional development to build instructional leadership capacity. With all Flint Community Schools participating, the fellowship has become a district-wide initiative d...

The Flint Leverage Points Project is a collaboration between researchers and community partners to find ways to change the food system in Flint so that it is more equitable, healthy, and sustainable. The Community Foundation of Greater Flint is partn...

Implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive school safety initiative in 20 schools across Genesee County, Michigan.

Seventh- and eighth-graders completed projects and presented posters to STEM judges who volunteered to come for the day. Served as judges for two events, then spoke to small groups about STEM education and careers.

This community-partnered study will scale provider, health system, and community organization-level interventions to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent).The intervention wil...

This multisector, multiyear project, part of an ongoing effort to build a locally African American-owned economy, is working on establishing a co-op grocery store on the north side of Flint.

Serve as board chair of WOW Outreach, a network of individuals and groups collaborating and engaging to eliminate the tolerance for violence in Flint. Its vision is a socially connected Flint working together to create safe neighborhoods.