Tonight I will walk through areas of downtown Traverse City with my colleagues Lisa Blackford and Brandon Everest and we’ll be accompanied by about one hundred of our students from 5 different classes, their friends and family, and members of the community. We’ll be...
A few years ago, Susan Odgers, Michael Anderson, and I received an NMC Foundation Grant to run a writing workshop with local people who had in the past or were then currently experiencing homelessness. With the help of Ryan Hannon of Goodwill Street Outreach, my...
Over the past three years, my students have contributed to cross-disciplinary service learning projects focused on homelessness and poverty. As many of you know, my writing students (along with social work and sociology students) have been constructing community...
