The National Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation & Information Center (NTAE) is funded by the USDA Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP). The GusNIP program focuses on reducing food insecurity, increasing fruit & vegetable intake...

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.

Since January of 2017, I have been collaborating with the Refugee Development Center, a local grassroots, nonprofit organization. Together, we have built a research-practice partnership (Penuel & Gallagher, 2017) characterized by mutual goals relativ...

As the PI for this grant funded program, I partnered with the MSU Office of Sustainability, the Greater Lansing Food Bank Garden Project, and the Refugee Development Center to plan a series of virtual events exploring the intersections between climat...

Studying how processes can be developed to best support workers with disabilities or barriers to employment in production work environments.

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

Immigration Law Clinic represents indigent immigrant clients in all their legal needs: particular focus on victims of domestic violence, trafficking, and other crimes

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.

Assisted MDE to plan and organize the Webinar Series on the History of Social Movements for K-12 teachers.

Co-designing curriculum, teaching and learning practices with youth and community educators that historicize, contextualize, affirm, and extend the identities, experiences, literacy and learning practices of African immigrant youth.

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...

Pre-college students participating in the Detrpit Area Pre-College Engineering Program were invited for a 2 h per day two day workshop at the Plant reserach Lab. Workshop was on photosynthesis. Students were also given a tour of the PRL.

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 ...

Two projects were conducted over the course of Spring 2021 semester for IDES 352. Projects were proposed renovations of a mercantile space and a cafe/restaurant in downtown Albion. Class worked in conjunction with Albion Reinvestment Corporation, a n...

My involvement was focused on the programming for senior interior design capstone project that runs throughout the academic year. I teach the fall course (IDES 442) where programming for the project is completed. This year the project is in conjuncti...

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...

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...