I co-chair the Committee that plans this annual event. We work closely with mid-Michigan Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting Agencies, as well as local community members, and representatives from Lansing Community College and Davenport University. Each...

The MI Diaries project collects “audio diaries” from participants across the state. Diarists hear selected stories from other diarists each week, suggest topics or questions to ask other participants, and share their own experiences about a range...

Provided multiple interviews to various local and national media outlets (television, online, and print) focusing on impacts of legally restricting abortion access; proposed legislation limiting health care to transgender and nonbinary youth and adul...

The Sugar Smart Coalition is committed to advocacy, education, equitable practice, and policy that improves healthy food and beverage options and choice. The coalition's vision is to reduce added sugar consumption and its negative health impacts in M...

The Michigan Farm to ECE Network collaborates so children ages birth to 5 can grow, choose, and eat nutritious, local food in early care and education settings. Farm to ECE in Michigan includes local food sourcing, nutrition education, and gardening....

Serve on the board of the Children's Palliative Care Coalition, a group of palliative care providers, social workers, nurses, and families working to promote and raise awareness of the need for palliative care services, advocate for legislation to ge...

Presented community health lecture regarding women's health care issues and taught outdoor emergency care and ski patrol.

The Index reports on the number of students engaged in curricular service-learning, civic engagement, and volunteer activities.

Plan annual career fair to connect criminal justice undergraduate and graduate students with organizations and agencies in the field. Participating agencies recruit for part-time jobs, internships, and full-time jobs across the full spectrum of the c...

Data is being analyzed to set a baseline of community impact by projects funded by community capital raises. This work recognizes that while the need for data is pressing, the demand has come more from the traditional investment and venture capital s...

With guidance from City of East Lansing parks staff, students in a Landscape Architecture 344 studio course created a series of new master plans for the existing park space in the Tamarist neighborhood. They designed recreational facilities, exercise...

Open invitation Zoom presentation offered on May 2, 2023.

Worked with GEAR UP program to discuss veterinary nursing with students as a potential career path.

Organized film screening and guest lecture by Omar El Akkad, an award-winning Arab American author.

In a keynote lecture, Craig Kiner, project director at Zaha Hadid Architects, explored the inspiration behind the MSU Broad Art Museum’s architecture and discussed the process of designing and building the museum. The keynote and subsequent convers...

Hosted math activities at the East Lansing Public Library.

Join Michigan State University Department of Art, Art History, and Design third-year graduate students Benjamin Carey, Evan F. Christopherson, Nicolei Buendia Gupit, Hannah Tamiko Mackey, Erik Mueller, and Lillian Young as they discuss their work inc...

A four-day course to provide instruction on forensic anthropology, forensic entomology, human osteology, skeletal analyses, and excavation, including a field excavation.

Work with members of the Mid-Michigan Stewardship Initiative, Ingham County Parks staff, Meridian Township staff, and community volunteers in efforts to control invasive species in Ingham and Clinton counties and to restore natural areas in the Lake ...

Directed a program that placed students in Detroit and Lansing as community engagement scholars and trained them in best practices as a cohort.

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.

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

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.