Domicology is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment. Domicologists -Recognize that manmade structures have a life cycle -Examine the life cycle continuum of the bu...

Stakeholder Input for Redeveloping Belle Isle Park Old Zoo Area NCI facilitated a series of online engagements for a partnership between the Michigan Department of Natural Resource’s Parks and Recreation Division (DNR) and the Landscape Architecture ...

Held on-line and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how ARPA funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

Participated in a series of meetings facilitated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in response to flooding in certain areas of central and NE MI due to a dam collapse. The goal was to bring together local and regional agencies involved in pr...

Provide research support services to a group of 13 mayors from Michigan, known as the Urban Core Mayors. Group is facilitated by the Michigan Municipal League and includes mayors from the cities of Detroit, Lansing, Saginaw, Bay City, Pontiac, Flint,...

Teach, Talent, Thrive (T3) serves as the Career and Educational Advisory Council for Prosperity Region 7. its mission to build a community committed to lifelong learning led by business and community stakeholders to ensure regional prosperity in the ...

This non-profit youth support service has been committed to the development of purpose-driven individuals through education, personal growth, arts, industry and sports for many years. I have worked with them to implement a curriculum, together with t...

This project addresses production, market, financial, and legal risk management issues, and seeks to better inform beginning, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers how to identify and mitigate risk, navigate disas...

The project addressed management and mitigation approaches related to production, financial, and human risks and provide information available to beginning, Latino, limited resources (LR), and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers on h...

A research project conducted with Latino farmers.

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

The objective of this project is to improve governance in the agricultural sector, through building national capacity to prioritize and implement strategic organizational and policy reforms that improve food and nutrition security in Myanmar; and fac...

On behalf of MSU, I maintain a partnership role in this multi-university effort to leverage and coordinate university resources in support of neighborhood initiatives in the HOPE Village community. It is an innovative model of community–campus collab...

The building of a co-operative grocery store

I serve on Steering Committee of the U.S. Census Bureau Information Centers. JSRI is a Census Information Center (CIC) and its goal is to provide Latino and other underserved local communities information from the U.S. Census Bureau, including report...

Working with Michigan communities and stakeholders, this project seeks to improve the state of broadband connectivity throughout the State. We work with community partners, such as Merit Network, to help communities map availability of broadband in t...

The project examines three questions: 1. Were students with broadband home Internet access and more digital skills better protected from declines in a) academic performance, b) educational aspirations, and c) psychological well-being, due to disrupt...

I am the principal investigator of Health in Our Hands. Funded by the Science Education Partnerships Award (National Institutes of Health), this project, lead by CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University in collaboration with the Health ...

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...

The MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development is building a new economic development ecosystem by leveraging higher education assets to support the creation and applicati...

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...

The MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development is building a new economic development ecosystem by leveraging higher education assets to support the creation and applicati...

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