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...

MSU’s Translational Neuroscience Department in Grand Rapids hosts an annual Neuroscience Fair during Brain Awareness Week. Coordinated and led the event at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, bringing in community partners from the local hospital. The ...

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.

Students in IAH 209 designed cards as gifts, which were given to ICU workers at Spectrum Butterworth hospital. The cards were designed and then hand printed by students using a traditional block-printing technique. These cards were given in packs to ...

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.

This proposed project addresses health outcome inequities for Michigan Indigenous children, who experience a higher prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes than their white peers. N-MICCHE would expand the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan's work in...

Acting as a neutral party, the National Charrette Institute (NCI) conducted 30 interviews with Water Resources Commissioner customers about water shut-off program experiences. NCI assisted with the development of an interview instrument, conducted su...

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

The MSU Theatre Department partners with OpenSpot Theatre to provide theatrical workshops for students who are neurodiverse. MSU students shadow OpenSpot professionals and learn best practices for creating content and performing with these individual...

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.

Students restored the medical home using the principals of Public health care Removal of out dated medicine,. Using an Amazon Wish List restock the house with pampers, formula, personal care items for the community. Food distribution/giveaway selecti...

Taught drainage design for crop production and water-quality protection as part of a three-day workshop for farmers, state conservationists, and other agency personnel. Developed curriculum, organized workshop logistics, taught majority of content. A...

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

Delivered a presentation on "Midwestern Oak Savanna Restoration" to the Wildflower Association of Michigan annual meeting in March 2022. 42 attendees.

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.

Joint lecture with other faculty on head injuries and helmet safety. This was delivered to adults that attended a Reach Out To Youth event at the Secchia Center in Grand Rapids.

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.

Participated in a panel for a seminar on domestic violence and its presentation in medical settings.

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...