Name: Will Mankins

Social Justice Group: Humanitarian aid to victims of war (C)

Date of Fieldwork: December 19, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Emily Thomas

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

Theo and I interviewed Emily Thomas, a high school teacher at LREI about our topic Humanitarian Aid. Emily has worked with a group called Engine quite a lot, Engine is a language-help organization that helps Ukrainians all around the world with help and supplies as well as helping them learn other languages so they can live in other countries. Something that I learned was about how certain people think about war in different ways, such as how a student of hers, as well as a buddy of hers in Poland from Engine, said that people actually in a war-famished country don’t think as strongly about war and how they said it’s not “world ending.”