They had warned me about the Michigan Winter. It didn’t matter that I grew up in Connecticut, a state that does a good job with the whole “being cold sometimes” schtick. The last warm weeks in November were a fleeting luxury compared to what was to come. Winter came and went, living up to all […]
They say that History majors don’t get jobs. Despite the stats showing that we’re pretty good at making money and play a pretty major role in how we choose to see the world through academia, teaching and important research, the stigma is still there. Those perceptions weighed on me as I approached graduation from Washington […]
In December and January, half of our cohort had the honor to work on our second challenge project with the City of Detroit’s Office of Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity (CRIO), to help build awareness about CRIO among Detroiters. CRIO consists of four different workstreams – Civil Rights, Construction Outreach, the Detroit Business Opportunity Program, […]
“We were blown away by how confident and leadership-driven DPSCD students are, and they were extremely kind and caring of each other. Our key insight from the project was that today’s youth in Detroit want their voices to be heard and that they want the opportunity to speak at a youth conference, not only be […]
