I direct the MSU Forensic Anthropology Laboratory and we provide consultations to medical examiners and law enforcement across the state of Michigan. Our work includes scientific identification of decedents, skeletal analyses, skeletal trauma interpr...

I led a team of students to participate in Operation UNITED which is a grassroots effort by the Detroit Office of the FBI and the Detroit Police Department to identify homicide victims from cases that have gone cold. These individuals are exhumed and...

Working with ACCESS in Dearborn to understand the Arab ethnicity’s relationship to whiteness and advocate for its categorization as a racially separate minority group.

Direct student providing free legal services and trainings/education

One of my summer classes partnered with Communities in Schools to support their summer programs, specifically with their Reading Buddies program.

Students worked with local non-profit organizations to draft a couple grant proposals

The Kinship Care Resource Center is one of several community programs in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. The KCRC serves kinship care families across the state by providing information and referrals to resources and services f...

I work with my community partner (MOASH) to create a toolkit to teach consent to K-5 students in Michigan Public Schools. Because of the age-range, it is focused a lot on friendship and respecting boundaries, and recognizing emotions in others, check...

My position is as an academic specialist for outreach, and I am the Program Coordinator for Michigan State University’s Enviroweather, which is a network of over 100 research-grade, automated weather stations that collect data which are transmitted t...

Evaluation of a Bureau of Justice Assistance funded study of the effects of a mentoring program on participants. At least monthly participation to shape program development and coordinate research with program delivery.

Field placements for social work students.

Principals’ efforts to support the implementation of interventions involves coordination among multiple actors in their social networks. However, less is known about how distinct features of these social networks are associated with principals’ perce...

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.

Collect and disseminate the work of Quilting around the world.

Work with community identified and driven projects aimed at enhancing assets within the Flint community through an immersive 10-week internship in Summer 2021. This involved various types of community engaged research as well as work with partner org...

We are the independent evaluation team for the HighScope Educational Research team. We are seeing whether their curriculum enhances children's self-regulation during preschool. This is part of a grant that represents a partnership between a community...

This project now FUNDED by the City of Lansing and community-based organizations draws upon formative, qualitative approaches to understand the barriers and root causes of structural inequalities, especially in education and work for adult parents of...

The Adolescent Diversion Program is a two-semester course funded by the Ingham County Court to provide highly trained undergraduates to work with court-involved youth

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

Creating (writing/ developing) a free, publicly available curriculum for infants and toddlers that centers children of color and children in metropolitan environments.

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.