Name: Zara Seegars

Social Justice Group: Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 19, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Steady Buckets, and Coach Macky, founder

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

My group interviewed Coach Macky on Thursday, January nineteenth, 2023. Coach Macky is the founder of a non-profit organization called Steady Buckets. Steady Buckets is a basketball, physical, and skill development program for girls and boys ages five to eighteen. The objective of the program is to help kids grow and develop hard-working skills. It is funded by the community, therefore there are high-quality free basketball classes that kids of various ages can go to. Macky shared us his insight on the prices of sports in NYC. I learned a lot about what it takes to run a non-profit organization and the benefits of kids that participate in sports. Kids who had taken part in the Steady Buckets in-person version of the program spread the word about the online workouts on Covid since they were accessible at any time of the day. Coach Macky expressed his pride at not really needing to publicize it because it did so well on its own. Coach Macky was aware that his high caliber free basketball program in downtown Manhattan would draw the attention it deserved and that anyone who chose to participate would learn about its caliber.