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By Gali Laska, Talia Feldman-Schwartz, Abby Care, Andres Perez, and Amelia Zehnder for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This group worked alongside Under 3 DC to help strengthen their work as a whole. Under 3 DC is an organization that works to harness the voices of parents with young children to provide an equitable early childhood system.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

By Donna Shmuel

My presentation is about the service-learning I participated in over the course of the semester. Global Guru is a service organization that is a free tutoring service that helps children in school. I created flashcards in reading and math that helps students from kindergarten to 5th grade.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  

You are welcome to post comments and questions below.