The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico, or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico, is a digital open access repository of Puerto Rican artifacts of disaster pertaining to Hurricanes Irma and María (2017), the Guayanilla earthquak...

The Cube provides a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development. With guided faculty mentorship, ou...

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...

To develop a cooperative distributor local agriculture, food, and related products in collaboration with Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC) and East Lansing Food Coop, inc.

Goals: The purpose of this project is to capture and record a series of traditional folktales as told in their original languages (Fongbe, Goun, and Maxi) and make them available in a variety of digital, written, and visual formats for a broader audi...

Costume Design for musical with Meadow Brook Theatre; first full production post-COVID for the institution; research into clothing styles from the early 1960s through late 1970s in the American south; production ran September 8-October 3;

Digital archive of photographs from Mali. Managing website, social media posts, communications from broad community, overseeing three undergraduate researchers on the project.

Curated a free monthly concert series presented by the East Lansing Public Library.

MSU AgeAlive is a program within the College of Osteopathic Medicine that is dedicated to building a central, coordinated aging hub at MSU that can bring together aging-related research, education, and community outreach and engagement. Dr. Clare Luz...

Related to lifelong learning, AgeAlive has hosted the weekly Town & Gown Lecture Series for almost two years. It is another partnership between AgeAlive, the MSU Social Science Scholars Program and the East Lansing Prime Time Seniors Program. Because...

This was a public event held online in cooperation with the Capital Area District Library, a panel discussion on John Lewis' graphic memoir March. Panelists included academics, activists, artists and teachers: Julian Chambliss, MSU Professor of Engli...

This was an online presentation of Special Collections materials related to Jewish culture, presented to Congregation Shaarey Zedek (local synagogue). Tad Boehmer, MSU Libraries rare books curator, and I presented.

The Greater Lansing African Female Empowerment Program (GLAFEP) seeks to empower African and African American female students in the Greater Lansing area. This is a partnership with the Woven Vessels International ministry and African Female Empowerm...

The primary goal of the project is to recover the people of the historical slave trade and make the information available to general public, researchers, and students. We also conducted workshops and presentations. The underlying technology is also k...

Collect and disseminate the work of Quilting around the world.

In 2021, the RCAH Center for Poetry hosted ten virtual events open to the public--including readings, performances, talks, and workshops by guest poets. In the fall of 2021, the RCAH Center for Poetry administered the Richard Benvenuto and Tom Samet ...

Community Writing Center in partnership with The East Lansing Public Library. It also connected to the course WRA/ENG 395. The Community Writing Center is committed to enriching the lives of East Lansing community members through reading, writing, ...

Premiere of a new musical composition with the music organization New Music on the Point

Oral histories were conducted with over 40 local synagogue congregants to preserve their historical and cultural experiences of Jewish community in the Lansing area.

In spring 202,1 I launched and sustained through summer 2021 and spring 2022 a community-engaged literacy and learning research project with African immigrant youth. Youth named our participatory, design-based, after-school literacy research collabor...

With two of my graduate students in the Second Language Studies PhD Program, we offered a year long professional development workshop for 20 fifth grade through college-level teachers of Arabic and Russian. The PD workshop was anchored by a LifeLong ...

Bookworms at the Broad is an intergenerational program that breaks down hierarchies typically present in MSU Broad Art Museums by making accessible connections between the artwork in the museum galleries and the lived experiences of visitors. Progra...

Interns from the MSU Broad Art Museum Education Team led art projects with students enrolled in Lansing School District's Summer SOAR 2021 program. Students met daily and completed several projects, learning about art at the museum and telling their ...

“Breed & Bootleg: Legends of Flint Rap Music” is an hour-long film about the birth of rap music in the city in the early 1990s, beginning with the late MC Breed, known as the first commercially successful rap artist in the Midwest. “Ain’t No Future i...

"Breed & Bootleg — Legends of Flint Rap Music" is an hour-long documentary film about Eric "MC Breed" and Ira "Bootleg" Dorsey who are pioneers of the Midwest Rap sound. In 2021, the film screened at more than 25 venues that include the Flint Insti...