Our goal as an advisory council is to bring ideas and fresh perspectives to the Pres./CEO of the MICPA in an effort to enable that organization to better serve the membership of the Michigan Association of CPAs (a group that includes hundreds and per...

The MICARES team—which includes electrical engineers, foresters, community organizers, tribal leaders, social scientists, energy policy specialist, indigenous education experts, and technical communicators—works to: • Understand the opportunities an...

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

This project examines how women workers and employers have navigated the informal economic sector, especially in the industries of household and personal services, as well as work/family balance, in the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan region and as...

IMPART Alliance is a statewide program with an institutional home in the College of Osteopathic Medicine/Family and Community Medicine. Its primary purpose is to assist the state of Michigan with developing an infrastructure that builds and supports ...

Dr. Clare Luz, director of IMPART Alliance, Co-chairs this Advisory Committee. It is comprised of stakeholders across MI representing all care settings, payors, state funded programs, and all populations served. It includes representatives from state...

This project has developed as a result of a partnership between IMPART Alliance and PHI, described above. In addition to establishing a statewide Direct Care Worker Coalition, chaired by Dr. Clare Luz, EJEC has a Coalition and Policy Steering Committ...

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 project conducted 60 interviews with stakeholders in Michigan from the areas of public policy, agriculture, energy, affected communities, and experts in agriculture and entomology. It was part of a fall 2020 capstone project for the Science, Tec...

I coordinate and facilitate semi-monthly meetings of the Michigan Association of Preventive Medicine and Public Health Physicians (MAPPP), a professional association of physicians working in Michigan's local and state health departments. These meetin...

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...

The goal of the project is to supply up to date geo-located data for disaster relief and mitigation.

I initiated a national Get Out the Vote poster campaign, in partnership with AIGA (the professional association for design), and the League of Women Voters. I and my project partner worked on this for 2 years, with 2020 being the most dense part of t...

Why: The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was in...

Review of educational materials directed at middle school and high school age students to raise awareness of chemical toxins in the environments and their impacts. Discussion with high school students about pursuing careers in research that impacts ...

This is an ongoing study in Partnership with MDE and CEPI, at the request of the state legislature, to help the state understand the impact of the pandemic on K12 student learning, and to understand how districts are working to address interrupted le...

This is a study in partnership with MDE, CEPI, and UM at the request of the State Board of Education to understand the implementation and impacts of the Read by Grade Three Law on student, educator, and school outcomes.

This is a study, at the request of the state legislature, EPIC is doing in partnership with MDE and CEPI.

The innovation lab is focused on building human and institutional capacity for capacity applied research with policy impact in developing countries. The research is done in a highly collaborative way with local partners, with mechanisms in place to e...

Michigan State University School of Social Work Continuing Education Program provides relevant and accessible professional development and training guided by the social justice and positive change mission of our school. In 2021 we provided non-credit...

I am a member of the Genesee County COVID-19 Taskforce which has convened nearly weekly for over a year. The taskforce has committees reflecting broad sectors of society: business, banking, government, health, faith, and philanthropy. Our focus is on...

As a member of the Greater Flint Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Inequities and the co-chair of the Faith Subcommittee, lead a team of researchers, faith leaders, policy influencers, and philanthropists to develop and maintain covid-19 outreach/publi...

Contributed to a national report led by the Alianza for Latino Youth Justice. Our main goal was to better understand the approaches used by state agencies to document Latinx system involved youth.

This activity broadly encompasses the problem of the appearance, emergence, expansion, and spread of mosquito and tick borne diseases regionally and within the state of Michigan; how to survey for these processes meaningfully; how to engage local pub...

MSUvote is a non-partisan campus committee whose mission it is to increase the number of registered student voters, to inform and educate students on candidates and issues, and to bolster student participation on Election Day. This is where our regis...