Category Archives: 2015-2016
Press Conference with AQENY
AQENY gave us the chance to rally at city hall. When we got there Maria (our contact) handed us signs. These signs said things from AQE, All [...]
Interview with Lisa Busillo 1/15/16
On Friday, January 15th (2016) my group and I interviewed Lisa Busillo at The Coffee Bean, across the street from our school. I was sick thi [...]
Interview of Joseph Blocher
As we got back from a long and relaxing winter break, we immediately got back into to action. We contacted a law professor from Duke named J [...]
Albany
At 6:30 am we boarded a bus that would take us to Albany. On the bus we were served pork gumbo, rice, and a roasted pig knee. My other grou [...]
Interview of Kim Russell
We got into to contact with Kim thought the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is one of the most well know organiz [...]
City Harvest Repack 1•21•16
On Thursday, Layne, Sophie, my Dad and Layne’s mom went with us to City Harvest, in Long Island City. Before I had no idea what a re-p [...]
Our Meeting with Kim Russell
Kim Russell is currently head of the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is a organization that works to prevent gun [...]
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen 12•15•15
On Tuesday, Layne, Sophie and I went to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. We got there around 9:15. They didn’t give us our job’s unti [...]
Peter Scheer Phone Interview:
Peter Scheer began at Harvard law school where he studied topics and cases relating to free speech. Shortly after leaving school, he became [...]
Meeting with Robert Gangi
This past Thursday we met with Robert Gangi again. This meeting however, was to follow up on the court monitoring idea. Court monitoring is [...]
Second Visit To St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 1•11•16
On Monday, my group and I went to St. John’s Bread and Life for the second time. It was their second time but my first time going to [...]
Our Visit to MMC.
Last week, my group and I went to an organization called MMC. MMC stands for Marina Maher Communications. It is a marketing firm located in [...]
Our Volunteer work with Democracy Now!
On Friday, January 15th, our group met with an organization named, “Democracy Now.” This organization deals with several problem [...]
City Harvest Re-Pack 1.21.16
The City Harvest Re-Pack was one of my favorite fieldworks but I arrived having no idea what were going to be doing. I knew we were going to [...]
Second Visit to St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 1.11.16
On Monday we visited St. John’s for a second time. The last time we went they didn’t have any work for us to do so Sophie and I [...]
Renee Shau
Renee Shaw works at a Public School in Arlington, Virginia. Just a year after their school was renovated in 2004, they were already short on [...]
Visit To MMC Marina Maher Communications
Around a week ago my group took a fieldwork visit to MMC (Marina Maher Communications) where we got to ask various useful and great question [...]
Refilling Planters With Gowanus Canal Conservancy 1/14/16
On a frigid Thursday, my groupmates and I met up with Michael Wasserman. We met another member, and then we set to work with grabbers, bags, [...]
Interview With Robert Gangi
Today, 1/21 my group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi for the second time. We discussed our court monitoring project which will take [...]
Visit to MMC Agency 1/13/16
On Wedsnday my group and I headed to MMC Agency. They are an agency group that focuses on marketing towards women. Once we got there we wait [...]
Re-Pack with City Harvest: 1/22/16
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2016, our group participated in a “re-pack” with City Harvest. City Harvest is a food rescuing organi [...]
Interview with Tanya Wexler, Film Director on 1/20/16
On January 20, my social justice group interviewed Tanya Wexler, who is a film director. We met at the front of the school and then walked o [...]
Interview With Ronald Kuby
On Monday January 11th my group went to Ronald Kuby’s offices, for an interview. We started talking about his early beginnings in law, [...]
2nd Visit to Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen: 1/11/16
On Monday, January 11th, 2016, our group volunteered with Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn for the second time. Sa [...]
Back to LSA Family Health Services
After our first experience at LSA we thought it would be a good place to go back to. At LSA this time we helped restock the pantry and helpe [...]
Mapping East Harlem’s Health
At the beginning of this fieldwork we thought that Mapping East Harlem’s Health was not going to be relevant to our project. However, [...]
Survey at Washington Square Park
For our fith field work we went to Washington Square Park to ask people questions about our topic to understand their perspective. Going in [...]
Interview with Lisa Busillo, Anesthesiologist on 1/15/16
On January 15, we met with Lisa Busillo, who is an anesthesiologist. We met at the Coffee Bean on Bleecker and sat down with some hot choc [...]
food stamp challange
The Food Stamp Challenge was a experiment we did where we found out what it would be like to live on food stamps. An average person on food [...]
Newark conservancy
the newark conservancy is a organization that focuses on teaching the newark community about heathy local food. They have many empty lot far [...]
Interview with Wen Zhou 1/20/16
My group and I interviewed Wen Zhou CEO and founder of 3.1 Phillip Lim. Our group is trying to interview a verity of women in a high positio [...]
Lisa Busillo (Doctor) Interview 1/15/16
Lisa Busillo is an anesthesiologist, someone who puts someone to sleep during surgery, and has been working as one for 20 years. My group me [...]
Meeting with Leah Gunn Barrett
On November 18th, our group went to Lafayette street to meet with New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. We left sometime during school and used [...]
Ronald Kuby Interview, 1/11/15
We met with the famous criminal and civil rights lawyer, Ronald Kuby, to interview him about his work. It was an honor to interview him know [...]
Visit to Marina Maher Communications
For our fourth fieldwork, my group visited Marina Maher Communications. It is a company that works in advertising and marketing to women. Wh [...]
Food deserts
\ We were driving around Newark and we noticed how there were almost no grocery shops or even delis. Most of them were closed or were fast f [...]
Albany Protest With The Seneca Lake Defenders, 1/13/16
On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 we traveled for three hours via bus from the Port Authority Bus Station on 8th Avenue to attend a protest in [...]
Protesting At City Hall With AQENY About Underfunding
With AQENY, we participated in a protest that was pushing to give schools the money they are owed. It turns out that schools in New York st [...]
Making Compost and Gardening with Gowanus 1/14
On January 14th, our group met up with Michael Wasserman (Gowanus Canal Conservancy). We did some gardening and cleaning up. These pl [...]
Albany Climate Change Walk 1/13
Early Wednesday morning, our group and the Change Climate Change group took a bus all the way to Albany! We were on our way to a climate cha [...]
Albany
Our bus left 1 Metro Tech Brooklyn at 6:30am and headed up through the Bronx making stops along the way to pick up other people. After a bri [...]
Phone Call with Renee Shaw 1/11
Yesterday we talked to Renee Shaw, a tech specialist at Barret Elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. Only a year after her school was re [...]
Stop and Stock With NYC Food Bank 12•2•15
On Wednesday my group and I went to the Food Bank for NYC. The Food Bank does many things like serve a full meal to only senior people, the [...]
Interview With Daniel Sherrel (Beyond Coal Campaign.)
Daniel Sherrell is the head organizer in New York for the Sierra club. We asked Daniel Sherrel alot about how he got interested in fighting [...]
Our metting with Leah Gunn Barrett
We meat with lea gunn barrett. She is the executive director of the organization, NYAGV. New Yorkers against gun violence. Tough we talked b [...]
Helping Hand out flyers In Bryant park
My social justice members and I went to Bryant park to help the Moms demand action organization. We were handing out flyers that had the inf [...]
Interview With Arch Puddington
On Thursday the seventh of January we spoke to the Vice President of Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Something Arch talked about how Freed [...]
Climate March at City Hall
On Sunday, 11/29, my group and I met up and went down to city hall for a climate march. We arrived with signs to hold up during the march. W [...]
Interview With Brian Torres
We recently met with and interviewed Brian Torres about his documentary on climate change. He originally came to our school to present his w [...]
Interview With Daniel Sherrell
We recently met with Daniel Sherrell, to talk about climate change, in which he is working to change. He is a member of the Sierra Club, an [...]
City Hall Rally and Press Conference on Stopping Coal Bailouts
We recently went to a rally and press conference at City Hall to stop coal bailouts. It was a really great experience, we got to learn a lot [...]
Our Interview with Arch Puddington:
Arch Puddington from his early years was fascinated by freedom of speech. He explained that he and his family often watched freedom of speec [...]
Interview with Arch Puddington, 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 [...]
Beyond Coal Campaign Rally
My group and I went to City Hall where a rally was held by the Beyond Coal Campaign. Before going to the rally, we emailed Daniel Sherrell a [...]
St. Brigid’s Breakfast with Santa
My group and part of the education group went to the St. Brigid’s school to volunteer at a Breakfast with Santa where there was food, [...]
Breakfast With Santa and Mrs. Claus
Winter Break started, but our group didn’t stop! On Saturday, we went to Saint Brigid School to serve breakfast and assist children on [...]
Joseph Blocher Interview 1/4/16
In our first fieldwork of 2016, we didn’t exactly do a fieldwork. We had an interview with the professor of law at Duke University, Jo [...]
NYAGV Meeting 11/18/15
On November 18, my group and I walked to the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence offices on Lafayette St. The offices were in a old firehouse, [...]
Dress for Success Volunteer Work 12/18/15
On December 18th, 2015 we went to one of the buildings that holds the organization Dress for Success (32 east 31st street). Dress for Succes [...]
Volunteer Work at Dress For Success on 12/19/15
On 12/19, my social justice group went to help out at an organization called Dress For Success. They are a non-profit organization and locat [...]
Parents Meeting
School around the 5 boroughs are getting parts of their education taken away in different ways. Some parents send their kids to a school tha [...]
Breakfast With Santa
Breakfast with Santa was a very informative event where we went to St. Brigid School and helped at a holiday bash. There was food that Ryann [...]
Democracy Now! Visit
On the 17th of December, our group made a visit to the Democracy Now! headquarters located in New York City. Democracy Now! is an independen [...]
Racing Extinction Film 12/2
Our group watched a very moving documentary that covered various topics involving environmental issues. It covered overcomsumption, sustaina [...]
Democracy Now! Studio Visit 12/17/15
On Thursday, December 17th my group and I woke up rather early and ventured to West 25th street to watch the news broadcast Democracy Now! l [...]
Amnesty International Visit
On Thursday, December 10th our group welcomed a representative of Amnesty International to speak to the 7th and 8th grades. Every year Amnes [...]
Santa’s Helpers at St. Brigids
On Saturday the 19th both my group and the education group went to St. Brigids to volunteer. Since, I was the first person to get the [...]
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Newark
On our recent field work to newark we met up with my uncle Charles Rosen; an owner of a farm supporting recently incarcerated men and women. [...]
Beyond Coal Campaign Rally: City Hall 11/24/15
We went to a rally at city hall organized by the beyond coal campaign. A campaign commited to shutting down all of the coal factories in Ame [...]
Food Banks
After traveling to the farm in Newark, we drove to a food bank. A food bank is a place, or warehouse, where food and supplies are shipped. P [...]
Newark
For out third and fourth field works, Stella’s uncle, Charles, picked us up from school and drove us to Newark. Before stopping at the [...]
Interview with Reilly Chaffin a model 12/11/15
My group and I facetimed a model named Reilly Chaffin. We wanted to talk to her about the modeling industry, the pressure of being a model, [...]
Write for Writes, Amnesty International
On the 10th of December, we had the privilege of participating in the “Write for Rights” campaign, hosted annually by Amnesty In [...]
Amnesty International Activity
On Thursday, 10th of December, our group had a representative from Amnesty International, come in and talk about imprisoned writers to the [...]
Interview with Peter Scheer Activist, Journalist, and Lawyer
On Friday the 4th of December our group spoke to Peter Scheer. Peter executive director at First Amendment Coalition. Peter Scheer is a fo [...]
Volunteering at Dress for Success
On December 18th, my group and I met outside of school and rode the subway to the Manhattan branch of dress for success on 31st street. When [...]
Volunteering with the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, 12/15/15
On December 15th, our group volunteered with the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in NYC. The Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen serves over 1,200 nutriti [...]
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen 12.15.15
On Tuesday Sophie, Tibeau and I worked with Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. As we have now visited many different food banks and soup kitchens I [...]
Visiting Dress for success — 12/19/15
My group visited dress for success on the Saturday we got off from break. We took the B train down to 34th street and walked over to the bui [...]
Volunteering with the Go Project 12/5
A couple of weeks ago we went to volunteer with the Go Project. It was on a saturday at our school, starting at 9:30. When we arrived at the [...]
Jump Start Breakfast
Jump Start is an organization that goes into preschools and assists in the class room. Collage students are the only ones who actually go in [...]
Volunteering with Everytown
On November 13, Louie, Will and I all met at Bryant park to volunteer with some other Everytown volunteers. We met early in the morning on a [...]
Food Deserts/ Food Cycle
Charles, Stella’s uncle took us on a field trip to a food desert in New Jersey. There were about 2 supermarkets. Half of the delis wer [...]
Social Justice Movie: Poor Kids.
Our Social Justice group recently watched a film directed on poor families, and their daily struggles. It was a really powerful movie that e [...]
Climate change march (around city hall) 11/29/15
Our group attended a march on Sunday. We marched around city hall for about an hour yelling “what do we want? Climate justice! When do [...]
Interview with Daniel Sherrell (beyond coal campaign)
Daniel Sherrell is the head organizer in New York for the Sierra club. Our interview with Daniel Sherrell went very well. We asked Dan about [...]
Interview with Riley Chaffin
For our third fieldwork, my group briefly interviewed Riley Chaffin, a model. We asked her about a few things that fall under the category, [...]
Interview with Brian Torres
Interview with Brian Torres. Although we had to reschedule this interview on a very short notice it was a very successful interview for our [...]
St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 12.9.15
On Wednesday, Sophie and I visited St. Johns Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn. St. Johns is one of the biggest soup kitchens and food [...]
PS 98
We went out to PS 98 on Monday December 14. The event we were going to attend (DEER) was canceled so we did other stuff around the school. W [...]
Interview With Riley Chafin
For our third fieldwork we interviewed Riley chafin an independent model in LA. We got in touch with her through Jaquie and set up a FaceTim [...]
Interviewing Peter Scheer of The First Amendment Coalition
On the 4th of December, our group held an online interview with Peter Scheer, an executive director of the First Amendment Coalition. Accord [...]
Interveiw With Reilly Chaffin
On Friday, December 11th, my group video chatted a former model named Reilly Chaffin. We began by asking her how she got into the modeling [...]
Interview With Peter Scheer 12/4/15
On Friday, December 4th my group and I had a phone interview with Peter Scheer. Peter is the executive director of the First Amendment Coali [...]
Fieldwork with Saint Johns Bread and Life: 12/9/15
On Wednesday, December 9th, 2015, our group visited Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn, NYC. When we arrived, we met [...]
Interview With Joel Berg and Outreach 11•18•15
On Wednesday, my group and I went to Union Square to do some outreach with a woman named Andrea Shapiro. What we did was before we went arou [...]
3rd Gowanus Canal Conservancy Clean Up 12/4
On December 4th, my group and I went on a fieldwork with Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We met Michael Wasserman. Altogether we held a clean up [...]
3rd and 3rd Garden Cleanup With Michael Wasserman, Dec. 4, 2015
During the fieldwork, our contact was Michael Wasserman from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We went to the 3rd and 3rd garden in Brooklyn an [...]
The New School- Youth Climate Change Event
On November 19th, our group went to The New School for a press conference on Youth participation in Climate Change. On the panel were five m [...]
