Our group is helping and learning about kids and adults with disabilities, and the accessibility they have to play sports. Being active is so important for all kids and adults, and no condition should stop someone from playing sports, dancing, and participating in a yoga class. Having a disability shouldn’t be a boundary to what…
On Thursday November 10th, our group went up to the Bronx on the D train for an hour to get to an organization called FIERCE. They help with LGBTQ youth and kids of color with helping them be more adaptable and comfortable in their own skin. We met Mustafa Sullivan, the executive director, to learn…
On Wednesday, November 16th, my group went to the Speaker Series at the EI High School. We were very excited when we first heard about it because Moisés Kaufman was going to be the one speaking. He is the writer of The Laramie Project. He talked about theatres’ roll in the modern day. He talked…
On Thursday, November 10th, (the same day we went to FIERCE. We had a long day.) my group went to see the EI High School Play, The Laramie Project together. The Laramie Project (written by Moises Kaufman) is based on the true story of what happened in Laramie, Wyoming. A twenty-year-old man named Matthew Shepard…
My group went to the Laramie Project play in the high school. The Laramie project was about a kid who had been brutally murdered because he was gay. It had many monologues of the people who knew Matthew speaking about who he was and what happened. The play was very knowledgeable and the acting was…
Our group is studying Water Pollution and is focusing on how animals in the ocean are affected by pollution, because humans eat animals and are affected too. By eating poisoned sea animals we are poisoning ourselves. Click here to read our work.
On our fieldwork we went to Karma Kids Yoga on west 23d street. When we arrived we were greeted by the receptionist who then guided us to a room in the back where we met a woman named Sherri. Sherri is a yoga instructor who not only helped us relax but prepared us for the…
Karma Kids Yoga is a yoga studio for people of all ages,located on West 23rd street. Karma Kids Yoga offers yoga classes that are not only relaxing but offer the opportunity for people to stay active while having fun. Karma Kids Yoga has a class for children with special needs, which is my group’s social…
On Thursday November 10th 2016 the Environmental-Water-Pollution and Waste group went to Governor’s Island for a day of service at the Billion Oyster Project. We left school in the morning and took a ferry to Governors Island which houses the main complex for the Billion Oyster Project. The Billion Oyster Project is non-profit organization that…
On Thursday, November 10th, our LGBTQ Social Justice group took a trip to see The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman. It was performed by LREI’s high school students. The play is about a young man in college named Matthew Shepard living in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. Matthew was brutally beaten by two men. They beat…
We asked if we could volunteer with Fierce, an organization that helps LGBTQ youth feel confident and encourages people to come out, and learn more about what they do to help. The Executive Director, Mustafa, said he would love to have us. On November 10th, my group and I went to the Bronx to go…
Our second interview we did was at the NY Center for Children. We interviewed Sarah McNamara, the senior social worker there. This organization provide therapy, medical, and recreational services to kids who’ve been abused in any way, such as; sexually, physically, emotionally, and psychiatrically. They also work with victims of neglect. It is a non-for-profit…
On Thursday, November 10th, our LGBTQ Social Justice group took a trip to the Bronx to meet up with a small organization called FIERCE. It is made for children of the LGBTQ community, specifically children of color. We agreed to do volunteer work from 1-4pm. After taking the train we met up with Mustafa Sullivan,…
My group is focusing on helping kids with disabilities participate in athletic activities. On Monday, November 21, my group and I went to Karma Kids Yoga to take part in a class for children with autism. There was one boy there, Kingston, and we participated in the yoga class with him, to understand how organizations…
Our group is studying environmental racism which is the unfair treatment of people, by putting low income communities close to or in a environmentally unsafe areas. Click here to read more of our work.
FIERCE NYC, LGBTQ 11/10/16 On Thursday, November 10th, 2016, my group went on our first fieldwork. We went up to an organization called FIERCE in the Bronx. What FIERCE does is they focus on children of color in the LGBTQ community. They help them feel more comfortable in their skin. They do that by having…
For our first fieldwork we scheduled an interview with Nicole Epps and Tessa Chermiset of the World Childhood Foundation. We took the D train to West 34th street and walked to their New York headquarters at 183 Madison Ave. We were greeted at their seventh floor sweet and were invited in. We were given water,…
On Thursday 11/10/16 we went to Governor’s Island and did volunteering for the Billion Oyster Project. Our group drilled and tagged oysters and cleaned dead oyster shells that came in from restaurants. Don’t worry we didn’t kill any oysters, the alive oysters are connected to the dead shells that we drilled. After we drilled through…
Today I met with Kim Russell, a representative from the Brady Campaign. During this fieldwork we sat and talked about Kim’s work at the Brady Campaign. Unfortunately I was sick and couldn’t make it, but one of my team members facetimed me so I could hear everything and even ask questions. Kim Russell was talking…
Our group is learning about the discrimination that can be found in the Judicial System. We believe that nobody, should be sent to prison because of their age, gender or race and we want to learn about the ways in which people are stopping this from happening. Click here to read more of our…
Our group is studying the unfair discrimination against women in the media. Women are constantly oversexualised in the media. Women who don’t look or act the way society expects them to are ridiculed. As women in society this day and age, we feel that it’s important to prevent to show everyone that we are more…
Our group is studying Women’s Reproductive Rights. Women are not getting the right maternal care that they need. In fact, the U.S. is 60th in the world for women’s maternal care. Women are being turned away from abortion clinics and are not being given a choice. Our group is working with organizations to try to…
On Saturday 11/12 Cole, Jack and I went to a conference at Columbia University called Urban Communities for Environmental Resilience run by We Act for Environmental Justice (WEACT). We Act is an organization of scientist and lawyers to help make all communities clean and safe. We helped David Chang, the environmental health coordinator at…
On the 16th of November, my social justice group and I went to meet with an organization called Every Mother Counts which is a nonprofit organization that helps make childbirth and pregnancy safe for every mother. In the beginning, we wanted to go to an organization that helps women all over the world. We also wanted…
On November 16, my group (Georgia, Cate, and Caroline) and I went to “Every Mother Counts.” Every Mother Counts is a non-profit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. They inform new audiences to take action and raise funds to support maternal health programs around the world. When we got to…
Cate, Sadye, Caroline and I met with the organization Every Mother Counts (EMC). Every Mother Counts is an organization that helps women across the world with maternal health issues. They go to different places around the earth and help different areas get the resources they need to make sure that every woman has a safe…
Aidhan, Jack, and I went to the uptown Asphalt Green to meet with the head of community services, David Ludwig. David told us all about what he does, and what it’s like to work at Asphalt Green. He is the Head of Community Services. This visit definitely helped our group. David told us about the…
