Category Archives: 2015-2016
Fieldwork with Talmage Cooley 11/21/16
Earlier in the year, our group interviewed Talmage the CEO of the Center to Prevent Youth Violence. He is one of the most important advocat [...]
Lower East Side Ecology Center, Interview
We went to the Lower East Side Ecology Center and met with Kaitlyn Parkins. We interviewed her on what she knew about water pollution and w [...]
1/9/17 Interview with Jaqueline Patterson Head of Environmental Justice at NAACP
On January 9, 2017, my other group members Spencer, Jack A, Willem, and I were fortunate enough to get an interview with Jaqueline Patterso [...]
field work number one
Our group went to the Urban Communities climate Resilience Conference. The conference was located uptown near Columbia. When we arrived, we [...]
Albany Climate Change Protest – 1/13/16
We heard about a climate change and oil pipeline rally in Albany and we of course wanted to go. We joined together with the environment gr [...]
Gowanus Canal Conservancy – Compost and Gardening
We met up with a GCC member, Micheal Wasserman, at a Brooklyn compost headquarters. We collected a garbage bag, a recycling bag, gardening t [...]
Healthier New York – Imagine
Some of the ideas we had to solve the problem of food deserts was to buy healthy food at a supermarket. What that does is when you buy an it [...]
Children in Poverty: FEEL STAGE
The main problem that our group focused on was Children in Poverty. We chose this because many people are unaware of how big of a problem po [...]
Feel Stage
First we familiarized ourselves with propny (Police Reform Organizing Project). They were able to help us by bringing us to go court monitor [...]
Share: Social Justice 2016
As a result of my experience as a change maker, I learned that children can do most of whatever they put their minds to, and that the smalle [...]
Share – Stage
What have you learned as a result of this experience of being a change maker? I have learned by being a change maker is helping other people [...]
Police Brutality Share Stage
What were some of the ideas you had about possible ways to address/solve this problem? Teach-In Protesting Flyers Videos Articles Social Med [...]
Opinion Editorial: Freedom Of Speech
Nearing the end our Social Justice project, we were assigned to write opinion editorials utilizing the culmination of knowledge we gained o [...]
Change Climate Change Feel
Throughout our project we hoped to learn what we could do to help the climate and how we can prevent climate change. We chose this problem b [...]
Education Inequity DO Stage
As a group we worked with about 10 different organization all taking different parts in solving education inequality. Our fieldwork stretche [...]
Gun Violence Prevention Imagine Stage
One idea that we had to address this epidemic of gun violence was to work with existing groups that already had ideas, and elaborate [...]
Imagine
We wanted to help public schools get funded and we wanted to raise awareness about underfunding. We thought that one of the best ways we cou [...]
“Do” Reflection
In the “Do” stage, my group and I scheduled a fieldwork with a non-profit organization called Dress For Success. This organizati [...]
DO Reflection
Not including our Teach-In Workshop, we had an impact on a company which we visited. The company is called MMC, Marina Maher Communications. [...]
Feel Reflection
Throughout this social justice project we hoped that people would understand the discrimination of women in the workforce. We hoped that we [...]
SHARE (Change Climate Change)
After going on fieldworks for the DO stage, we needed to share our work to inspire others. We learned that if you feel that something is wro [...]
Social Justice: The Feel Stage
The main problem we wanted to resolve and gain a larger understanding around was freedom of speech in foreign countries. Since we are curren [...]
Do
A plan to take action that we had was to tell our students of the teach-in to visit Change.Organization to sign petitions to help solve the [...]
Do
In the do stage we went on many fieldwork to learn what it felt like to take action. We contacted organizations such as the beyond coal Camp [...]
Imagine Stage
In the imagine stage, my group and I read the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, the former CFO of Google, and the current CFO of Facebook. Th [...]
Women in the workplace Social justice Review
After we conducted interviews and went on many field works, my group was ready to share what we learned and found out about the discriminati [...]
Children In Poverty: Share
After the feel, image, and do stage my group felt that we were strongly educated on our topic and thought that we could make a change. To ed [...]
Imagine
As the Climate Change group We thought that we could attend conferences and rallies to help spread awareness to people with political power [...]
Maysville Interview
How healthy is your food? Answer: it ranges to 1-10 depending on what you order. Buy from the right places (union square farmers market). Al [...]
Do and Share
Obviously the social justice teach-in enabled all of us to put our knowledge out into the school and teach others about our topic. But [...]
Canstructing a Solution to Hunger: Imagine
During this project, we wanted to address our topic, (hunger) in the most effective way possible. One of the ideas that we had in addressin [...]
Police Brutality Do Stage
We interview the head of the Police Reform Organizing Projecr, Robert Gangi. It started as four boys interviewing an educated activist and h [...]
Police Brutality Share Stage
I have learned that it doesn’t take a lot of people to make a big change. As long as you are committed and willing, anyone can make a [...]
Maysville
For our fifth fieldwork, Stella, Alice and I went to a restaurant called Maysville. Maysville is a 4.5 star restaurant, and we wanted to see [...]
Interview with Nigel Barker/He for She
We interviewed Nigel Barker, an ex model, judge on America’s Next Top Model, and a spokesperson for the UN organization, He for She. N [...]
MMC Visit #2 2/10/16
My group and I visited the MMC (Marina Maher Communications) again. This time we set up a meeting with a specific group of women that deal w [...]
Interview with Nigel Barker on 2/18/16
On February 18, my group (consisting of Bay, Skyler, Jaquie, and myself) interviewed Nigel Barker. Nigel is a former model and a photographe [...]
Interview with Allison Grover on 2/1/16 at Zara Terez
On February 1, my group and I went to Zara Terez, located in midtown, to interview their president, Allison Grover. Allison isn’t only [...]
Interview with Noa Meyers 2/19/16
My group went to interview Noa Meyer who works with 10,000 located in Goldman Sachs. 10,000 women is an organization that helps women in dif [...]
Interview with Karen Y Bitar – Former Kings County Prosecutor
On January 27th, 2016, we went to interview Karen Y. Bitar. Ms. Bitar was a former Kings County prosecutor. When our group first contacted h [...]
Interview with Nigel Barker 2/18/16
My group and I decided to interview Nigel Barker who works for He for She and Girl up. He for She is an organization that stands up for gend [...]
Know Your Rights Workshop
On Tuesday, February 22 my group and I went to NYCLU, for a Know Your Rights Workshop. We traveled there by the 1 train and arrived at 4:2 [...]
Martin Luther King Assembly 1/20
On January 20th, Louie and I spoke at the Martin Luther King Assembly about gun violence prevention. Before everyone saw us, Louie and I wer [...]
Interview With Sister Mary 2.8.16
On Monday Sophie and I had the opportunity to interview Sister Mary from St. John’s Bread of Life Food Pantry (a different St. John [...]
Phone Call with Director of CAGV (Connecticut Against Gun Violence)
On Wednesday, February 17th, we had a phone conversation with the director of CAGV. In our conversation we discussed the work we had comple [...]
LREI Martin Luther King, Jr and Social Justice Issues: School Assembly
In late January 2016, our social justice group, Stop the Shots, organized an assembly that was in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vi [...]
School of Visual Arts: Mapping Health of a Community Symposium
On Monday, February 1st, our Social Justice group returned to School Visual Arts to attend a symposium on health issues. We heard from impor [...]
Interview with Gabriel Mendez, Director of El Nevado
Our interview with Gabriel Mendez was more beneficial to him and El Nevado than to us. We were originally going to be interviewed by Brian T [...]
Interview with Allison Grover, President of Zara Terez
On February 1st we met with Allison Grover at Zara Terez. Allison is parent at the LREI community as well. She is also the president of Zara [...]
Albany
I had to wake up at 5:30 to get to the Starbucks where we were meeting near the port authority our bus left from. We met at 6:30 with both s [...]
Interview with Sister Mary: 2/8/16
On Monday, February 8th, 2016, my group had an interview with Sister Mary, who works at the Saint John’s Bread of Life Food Pantry. We [...]
Court Monitoring
This past Friday we went court monitoring with PROP. We went to the arraignment part of a criminal court in Manhattan on 100 Centre Street. [...]
Interview with Michelle Kaminsky 1/21/16
My group and I wanted to talk to other type of women in the workforce, so we contacted Michelle Kaminsky, a parent at Little Red, but also a [...]
Interview with Lisa Busillo
Last Friday we had an interview with Lisa Busillo, an anesthesiologist and a mother of three, at the co [...]
Interview with Tanya Wexler
We interviewed Tanya Wexler, a director and mother of four children. Tanya started out as a child actor with her sister, and grew up acting [...]
Idlewild Park Wetland Cleanup
We met at Idlewild Park with the park services and we also met Micheal Wassermann from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy group unintentionally. [...]
Interview with Wen Zhou
We interviewed Wen Zhou, the cofounder, president, and CEO of 3.1 Phillip Lim. Wen was born in China, and moved with her parents to New York [...]
Our Conference Call with a Duke Professor
In December my social justice group had a conference call with Joseph Blocher, a professor from Duke University. He had recently written an [...]
Writing valentines letters to scholarship donors at Mt. Carmel Holy Rosary Parochial school
At the Mount Carmel Holy Rosary School in Harlem, we helped kids write letters to the donors of the scholarship that they were on. It was no [...]
Lobbying In Albany With AQENY
The bus going to Albany Left at 7 from One MetroTech Center and it arrived in Albany at 11. We went into the building and were guided to a r [...]
Billion Oyster Project @ Governor’s Island 1/29
On Friday, January 29th, my group and I took the ferry all the way to Governor’s Island. We met with the Billion Oyster Project [...]
MLK Idlewild Park Clean Up 1/18
On MLK day, Ciro and I went on a clean up in a dedication of MLK day. It was quite frigid but definitely worth it. We met up with NYC [...]
Billion Oyster Project Fieldwork on Governor’s Island, 1/29/16
We took the ferry to the Harbor School on Governor’s Island to volunteer with the Billion Oyster Project. For clarity, the Billion Oys [...]
Our interview with Floyd Abrams:
Today, January 28th, my group and I traveled down to wall street to meet with a prolific first amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. By the time A [...]
Our Phone Interview with Nisan Chavkin:
Today my group and I held a interview over the phone. We called a man by the name of Nisan Chavkin, the executive director of CRFC for over [...]
Interview With Arch Puddington of Freedom House
On the 7th of January, our group interviewed the vice president of research at Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Arch talked with us about wha [...]
AQENY Parent’s Meeting 12/21
We had the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with parents from all different boroughs that worked with AQENY. We came on time, which was ap [...]
P.S. 98 12/14
On Monday, December 14th, we were originally scheduled to volunteer at a program called DEER, Drop Everything and Read. It was an animal the [...]
Breakfast with Santa at St.Brigids via CSF 12/19
Anna, Sophie, Ryann, Reggi and I all volunteered at a Christmas event at St.Brigids with Children’s Scholarship Fund as a joint effort [...]
Lobbying in Albany with AQENY 1/12
At 5 in the morning, when the moon was still out, we began our trip to Albany. After driving to One Metrotech and walking around in the free [...]
Court Monitoring with Robert Gangi
On Friday 1/22, my Group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi. We met with him for our third time to go court monitoring at a court on C [...]
ACLU/NYCLU Interview with Sam Thypin-Bermeo, 1/26/16
Today we went down near the South Ferry to go to the ACLU/NYCLU. There we had an interview with Sam Thypin-Bermeo. He first showed us the am [...]
Meeting with NYCLU
On Tuesday, 1/26 my group and I met with Sam Thypin-Bermeo from the NYCLU. We had to travel downtown to get to the NYCLU’s office. We [...]
Interview with Michelle Kaminsky, Assistant DA on 1/21/16
On January 21, my group went to the District Attorney’s office in Brooklyn to interview Michelle Kaminsky, a District Attorney’s [...]
Our Interview with David Reiter
Today, my group and I met with David Reiter at ABC Studios. We met in a conference room on one of the many floors of the building, after tak [...]
Interview With Sam From NYCLU
On January 26 my group and I went to the NYCLU to meet Sam. Sam is a worker at the NYCLU and he focuses on police brutality and he is a lawy [...]
Our Volunteer Work at Democracy Now!
On Friday, January 15th, our group met with an organization named, “Democracy Now.” This tv show deals with several problems regarding f [...]
Interview with Tanya Wexler 1/20/16
My group and I wanted to go out further to interview different women and their occupations. We reached out to Tanya Wexler who is a female d [...]
Our Interview With Floyd Abrams
Today, January 28th, my group and I traveled to busy crowded wall street to meet with a great first amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. Floyd Ab [...]
LSA Food Pantry Visit #2
My group decided to go back to LSA because we enjoyed going so much a few months ago and we thought that it was an amazing organization that [...]
Washington Square Park Survey
My group decided that we wanted to go to Washington Square park to ask people questions about their views on poverty. We wanted to see if pe [...]
Washington Square Park Fieldwork
Our Social Justice group went to Washington Square Park to ask random citizens questions about poverty. We asked many different questions, a [...]
Interview With Ronald Kuby
On January 11th, my group and I had an interview with Ronald Kuby. Ronald Kuby is a lawyer for the American criminal defense. We learned a l [...]
Harlem Community Health Workshop/Gallery
My group went with Mark to a gallery/workshop at the School of Visual Arts. At the entrance of the building there was a gallery that contain [...]
LSA Food Pantry Visit
Thursday January 24th, our Social Justice group visited LSA, Little Sisters Assumption, for the second time. We really enjoyed our first exp [...]
Protesting at City Hall with AQENY 1/10
A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to stand on the steps of City Hall with AQENY as the conducting a protest/press event. As we ap [...]
Interview with Michelle Kaminsky 1/21/16
On Thursday, January 21st (2016) my group and I interviewed a female Assistant District Attorney. She also happens to be the Chief of the Do [...]
Interview with Tanya Wexler 1/20/16
On Wednesday, January 20th (2016) my group and I interviewed a female Indie film director. We talked to Tanya about a lot of statistics. Lik [...]
Interview with Anthony Rogers-Wright
On January 26, 2015, my group had an interview with Anthony Rogers-Wright. We first saw Anthony on our first fieldwork at Patagonia’s [...]
Climate Rally in Albany
On Wednesday, January 13th, both climate change groups went to Albany to go to a climate rally and march. All of us (Ming, Jane, Maisy, Grah [...]
Meeting with Jackie Rowe-Adams, founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. 1/12
On January 12th, my group and I went to 306 West 128th Street to meet with Jackie Rowe-Adams, founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E., which is a [...]
Harlem Gallery Mapping and Meeting
On Wednesday January 20th Mark took our Social Justice group was went to the School of Visual Arts, to talk about Harlem, and what it means [...]
Court Monitoring System, 1/22/16
On Friday, after our previous day’s meeting with Robert Gangi, director of PROP, we went to court. In court, we went to a room, sat o [...]
Robert Gangi, 1/21/16
On Thursday, we met up with Robert Gangi. Robert Gangi is the director of PROP; Police Reform Organization Project. We first met a while bac [...]
Harlem First Fieldwork
For our fieldwork at Harlem First we learned about East Harlem and looked at many valuable maps on East Harlem. The two maps that stood out [...]
Washington Square Park Fieldwork
During our fieldwork at Washington Square Park we interviewed people on there thoughts about children in poverty and the statistics. It was [...]
Visit to PS 98
We went to PS 98 for an event called DEER. When we got there we figured out that the event was canceled. We then asked what to do, we were s [...]
Interview with Wen Zhou 1/20/16
On Wednesday, January 20th (2016) my group and I went to the 3.1 Philip Lim office to interview (one of) the founder(s)/CEO/president of the [...]
LSA Fieldwork
For our fieldwork at LSA we unboxed food and put the food on the shelves. After that fun and long process we went “shopping” wit [...]
