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Learning How To Accompany Undocumented Immigrants
Name: Zachary Cappadocia Social Justice Group: DACA and Immigration Name of Organization: East End Temple Person (people) with whom I met an [...]
Interview with Candace Cho
Name: Zachary Cappadocia Social Justice Group: DACA and Immigration Name of Organization: New York Law department Person (people) with whom [...]
Interview with a DACA Recipient
Name: Zachary Cappadocia Social Justice Group: DACA and Immigration Name of Organization: N/A Person (people) with whom I met and their job [...]
Interview with Sam Soloman
Name: Zachary Cappadocia Social Justice Group: DACA and Immigration Name of Organization: New York Mayors Office of Immigrant Affairs Person [...]
Meeting With the World Childhood Foundation on 1/17/17 (Photo Taken from Google Images)
On this fieldwork, we met with various people who were part of the World Childhood Foundation at their NYC headquarters. We spoke to Joanna [...]
Volunteering with the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on 12/11/16 (Featured Image from Google Images)
On this visit, we were invited to volunteer by one of the directors of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a new [...]
Meeting with Nicole Epps World Childhood foundation on 12/6/16 (Featured Image from Google Images)
When we met with Nicole Epps and Tessa Chermiset of the World Childhood foundation for the second time, it felt more like they were intervie [...]
Interview with a Child Abuse Survivor on 12/5/16
This interview has impacted how I see child abuse the most. We interviewed a child abuse survivor (for confidentiality reasons, they will no [...]
NY Center For Children, 11/16/16
For our second fieldwork, we went to the NY Center for Children on 333 E 70th St #1. There we met with Sarah McNamara, a social worker that [...]
World Childhood Foundation, 11/15/16
For our first fieldwork, we met with Nicole Epps and Tessa Chemist from the World Childhood Foundation. Their organization focuses on preven [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canstruction visit at Brookfield place 11•16•15
On the sixteenth, my group and I went to see a art show called Canstruction. Canstruction is an art installation when many people make art o [...]
A Place at then Table Movie Screening, 11•11•15
On November eleventh Layne, Sophie and I watched and finished a 2012 documentary called A Place at the Table. The story focuses on three A [...]
Poor Kids (Movie)
For my Social Justice fieldwork my group watched a movie on these three families who are below the poverty level. It was fascinating seein [...]
Glass Ceiling: Sexualization of Women
We are a group of eighth graders who care about women in the workplace. Why are so few women in positions of leadership in the Fortune 500? [...]
Visit from Candis Tolliver
On Thursday the 23rd, we were very lucky to receive a visit from Candis Toliver from the NYCLU. Earlier, when we had visited the NYCLU, she [...]
Tamar Gargle Visit, January 13, 2014
On January 13, Sophia, Bella, Daria and I went to ABC News to talk to Tamar Gargle. Lexi wasn’t feeling well, so she stayed at school. [...]
Visit at Part Of The Solution (POTS) on 1/6/14
On Monday, January 6th, our group was able to go to a soup kitchen located in the Bronx called Part Of The Solution or POTS. We were set to [...]
Interview with Alice Steigerwald at Covenant house 11.6.13
Our social justice poverty group visited the Covenant House and interviewed Alice Steigerwald, the volunteer coordinator and talked to her [...]
GLSEN: An Interview with Brian Murphy and Camille Beredjick
Today I was able to interview GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) with the LGBTQ group. This was a very enlightening and inspirin [...]
Martha Brooks Interview, December 17, 2013
On December 17, My group and I ventured up to McCann Worldgroup, to visit Martha Brooks at the L’Oreal advertisement agency. We quickl [...]
Crystal Renn Interview, December 12, 2013
On December 12, my group had an interview with the model Crystal Renn at a coffee shop. Early in her career, Ms. Renn developed the eating d [...]
Paley Center for Media
My group and I visited The Paley Center For Media where we met Rebekah Fitz and participated in a Women in the Media class. Rebekah told u [...]
Sanctuary For Families – 1/16/14
On the 16th of January, my Social Justice group and I went to Sanctuary for Families, an organization that works to assist survivors and end [...]
Class at the Paley Center on Women’s Portrayal in the Media, 1/27/14
On Monday, January 27, my social justice group doubled up with the sexual violence group to go to a class at the Paley center about women’ [...]
Skype call with Susanne – December 2013
On December, my Social Justice Group and I met with Susanne on a Skype call. She is a stylist and a feminist that works in Brooklyn and we d [...]
Visit From Candis Tolliver
On Thursday, January 23rd, Candis Tolliver, senior organizer for the NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union) came to speak to the Eighth Grad [...]
Interview With Suzanne Rae
On Tuesday, December 17 my group and I interviewed a Brooklyn based designer named Suzanne Rae on Skype. Suzanne graduated from Parsons, The [...]
INTERVIEW WITH PETER PUTKA
My group and I got the opportunity to meet with filmmaker Peter Putka. He is currently working on an “interactive movie” which [...]
Interview with Tamar Gargle, Director of Graphics Operations at ABC News, 1/13/14
Today our group went to ABC News to interview Tamar Gargle, and get a tour of their workspace. We took the one train to 66th street, where A [...]
Interview with Martha Brooks, L’Oreal Executive Creative Director, 12/17/13
On December 17, my social justice group and I went to the advertising center of L’Oreal to meet with a creative director for their adv [...]
Interview with Crystal Renn, 12/12/13
On December 12, my social justice group and I went to Jacks to talk with a model who is considered plus sized named Crystal Renn. Crystal wa [...]
Samantha Levine Interview, December 10, 2013
On December 10, my group went to City Hall to meet with Samantha Levine. She worked for the former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. Ms. [...]
Food Van 1/20/14
On Monday night, my social justice group was given the opportunity to go on a food van that delivered dinner to the homeless or poor through [...]
Visit from Fernando Bermudez
In 2006, my dad read an article about the Innocence Project in the newspaper and told me about it. I realized it was a good cause and donate [...]
Speaking in Front of City Hall
Our social justice group got the amazing opportunity to speak outside city hall in front of reporters for major news networks and very impor [...]
1 Year anniversary of Newtown Shooting
On December 14, 2012, the Sandy Hook Newtown shooting took place. One year later, my group went down to city hall to take part in the ceremo [...]
Interview with Richard Aborn
Richard Aborn is the president of the citizens crime commission of New York City, and organization that seeks to reduce crime, especially gu [...]
Interview with Samantha Levine, I’m a Girl Campaign, 12/10/13
On December 10, my social justice group and I went to meet with Samantha Levine who works for city hall. Samantha was the second person we i [...]
Interview with Iman Abdulmajid, 11/25/13
On November 25, my social justice group and I met in a cafe near school with Iman Abdulmajid. Iman said in her early years she was a refugee [...]
Iman Abdulmajid Interview, November 25, 2013
On November 25, we interviewed Iman Abdulmajid, the former model who now has a top selling line of make up advertised for women of color. We [...]
Charles King at LREI
On December 12th the LGBTQ Social Justice group welcomed Charles King the director and founder of Housing Works to speak with the 8th grade. [...]
Interview With Nicole Epps
On Thursday, December 8 my group and I met with a women named Nicole Epps to discuss with her about future volunteer opportunities we could [...]
Volunteer at Holy Apostle Soup Kitchen, 12/16/13
On Monday, December 16th, we volunteered at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm. Holy Apostle is a church that serves dinner [...]
Wadjda, November 19, 2013
On Tuesday, November 19, my group went to see the film Wadjda. It is about a ten year old girl living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This film was [...]
Private: Interview with Richard Aborn
On December 10, 2013, our Social Justice group went to the Citizens Crime Commission office to meet with Richard Aborn, President of the Com [...]
Interview with Nicole Epps – 12/2/13
On Monday, December 2nd, my Social Justice Group and I had lunch with Nicole Epps, a coordinator of the organization called Safe Horizon. Sh [...]
Visit at Coalition for the Homeless 12/5/13
On Thursday the 5th, our poverty group was lucky enough to have scheduled a visit with Coalition for the Homeless. We met with Marisa Butler [...]
Interview With Kiera Laffe From The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
On Wednesday, November 27, my group and I visited The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault to volunteer, learn more about the organ [...]
Watched Wadjda, a movie playing at the Village East Cinema, 11/19/13
On November 19, my social justice group and I went to see the film Wadjda, the first movie directed by a Saudi Arabian woman with a fully Sa [...]
The Center Interview with Natasha Jones and Mary Steyer
Zoe Carter, Lulu Grant and Liv Reis interviewed Mary Steyer and Natasha Jones, who work at the Center. Unfortunately, the fourth member of o [...]
Eighth Graders Speak Up at City Hall Rally “One Year Since Newtown”
Dear Colleagues, Yesterday, Keith, Alegba, Lachlan, Nolan and Dalton did a wonderful job representing our school’s commitment to socia [...]
The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault – 11/26/13
On Tuesday, November 26th, my Social Justice group and I went to visit an organization called, The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Ass [...]
Charles King, director and founder of Housing Works
Today the LGBTQ group invited Charles King of Housing Works to speak to the class. He is the director and founder of that organization and h [...]
Our Trip to Poughkeepsie
On November 16th my group, which is focusing on work against gun violence, drove to Poughkeepsie to meet with Donna Dees and Mothers Against [...]
NYCLU visit, Candis Toiliver and Deandrea Khan November 26
We recently visited the NYCLU. They are a organization that mainly focuses on police brutality, stop and frisk and knowing your rights. Stop [...]
Innocence Project, Interview with Kristen Pulkinnen, Wednesday November 20, 11:00
Our goal visiting the Innocence Project was to find out how people and organizations helped with wrongful incarceration. The Innocence Proje [...]
Feminist Philosophy Night with The National Organization For Women – 11/21/13
On Thursday, November 21st night my Social Justice Group and I attended to a night event called Activist Night organized by NOW: National Or [...]
Denis Ahlgrim Interview, November 12, 2013
On November 12, my social justice group and I had an interview with Denis Ahlgrim, the designer of the “I’m a Girl” Camp [...]
Elizabeth Irwin High School Day of the Girl Assembly, September 2013
In the beginning of the school year, I and the rest of my social justice group went with the other women’s group to listen to an assem [...]
St. Johns Food Pantry
Our group went to St. John’s Food Pantry on Tuesday to help the pantry be ready for the people to come the next day. Wednesday’s [...]
Lauren Mucciolo came to our class on 12/2/13
After producing the film “Poor Kids”, Lauren Mucciolo has a very interesting view on child poverty in America. She got to have t [...]
Interview with Donna Lieberman, Candis Tolliver, and Deandra Khan
On Tuesday, November 26th, my group went to the offices of the NYCLU, the New York affiliate branch of the ACLU, the American Civil Libertie [...]
“Gideon’s Army”
On Thursday, November 21st, my group went to the NYU School of Law to watch a movie about public defenders in the South. The film, “ [...]
Interview with Kristin Pulkinnen
On Wednesday, November 20th, my group visited and interviewed Kristin Pulkinnen, a woman who works at the Innocence Project, specifically on [...]
Interview with Donna Dees, Creator of Million Moms’ March
LREI Gun violence group meeting activist Donna Dees Our social justice group got the chance to meet with creator of The Million Moms March D [...]
Interview with Yang Jiang on 11/14/13
Before our interview with Columbia graduate and data analyst Yang Jiang, we believed that the organization she works with, NCCP (national ce [...]
Interview with Dennis Ahlgrim, I’m a Girl Campaign, 11/12/13
On Tuesday, November 12th, I and the other five members of the Women in the media, and women’s self-esteem group met and had an interview [...]
Volunteer work at St. John’s Food Pantry, with Joe Spicketts on 11/12/13
When we got to the food pantry, we started to notice that there were a lot of extra volunteers there. They were all wearing volunteer shirts [...]
United Nations Conference for the Eradication of Poverty, 10/17/13
On October 17th, both Poverty Groups were lucky enough to sit in on a conference at the United Nations for the Eradication of Poverty. This [...]
Elisabeth Irwin High School “Day of the Girl” Assembly, September, 2013
In September we went to a “Day of the Girl” assembly at Elisabeth Irwin High School. I learned a lot about my civil rights topic [...]
Interview with Mr. Bill Torres from the Ali Forney Center
On November 14, 2013 Liv Reis, Lulu Grant, Zoe Carter and Sam Kielian interviewed Bill Torres of the Ali Forney Center, working to help memb [...]
Conference at the U.N.
This fieldwork visit was to a conference in the U.N. This conference was about poverty, and that it still exists in the world. The goal of t [...]
Interview with Bill Torres of the Ali Forney Center
Today we spoke to Mr.Torres who works for the Ali Forney Center. The Ali Forney Center helps LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Que [...]
Interview with Alice Steigerwald, 11/6/13
The poverty group went on a fieldwork yesterday. We visited the Covenant House which is a transitional housing unit for youth in NYC. We met [...]
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Our group is looking at Wrongful Incarceration, Stop and Frisk, and the Justice System as a whole. The Justice System is flawed, people are [...]
Poverty Has No Face
Our social justice group took interest in poverty because of the sympathy we feel for the homeless men and women we see every day on the str [...]
Young Guns
We are a social justice group that is focused on helping rid the United States of gun violence. We are doing this by raising awareness and e [...]
LGBTQ: All About Pride
The LGBTQ community has suffered throughout many years so we are trying to raise awareness and learn as much about the struggles and progres [...]
Sock Out Homelessness
We are a group of four eighth graders who attend LREI: Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School. Our social justice group is [...]
Girls Just Like Us
Hi, we’re Girls Just LIke Us, an eighth grade group from LREI fighting to get respect for women in the media. Women and girls ar [...]
Unthanked Heroes
Our justice group took interest in veterans affairs when it became clear to us that veterans come home completely alienated and conflicted b [...]
An Interview with Jessica Wolff
On March 8th, our group spoke to one of the members at Campaign for Educational Equity named Jessica Wolff. The Campaign for Educational Equ [...]
Volunteering at Coalition for the Homeless Food Van
On March 7th, the Child Poverty had the amazing opportunity to go volunteer with the Coalition for the Homeless van program. Coalition for t [...]
An Interview with Bonnie Greaves
On March 6th, my group and I talked to a woman named Bonnie Greaves who is a volunteer at the Citizens’ Committee for Children. This o [...]
Volunteer Work at Room To Grow
On February 23, the Child Poverty Group had the opportunity to volunteer at an amazing organization called Room to Grow. Room to Grow is an [...]
Playing Squash At Street Squash!
On February 22nd, my group and I went to Street Squash an organization that tutors and teaches squash to children from 6th to 12th grade. My [...]
Producer Lauren Mucciolo Came to Speak With Us About Her Movie!
On February 11th, the Child Poverty group had guest speaker Lauren Mucciolo come speak with our grade. Lauren Mucciolo is the producer of an [...]
Women Moving Millions Communtity Update Call Sit-In
At 2:45 February 5th, we arrived at the main headquarters of Women Moving Millions. Women Moving Millions is a worldwide organization that w [...]
Youth Demand: Not Sometime
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: Now
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: Youth Is
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: End
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Interview at District Attorney’s Office
By Julia N. Last Wednesday at 11AM we visited the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office for an interview with three employees in the Cri [...]
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Housing Plus Solutions-The Drew House
By Sadie On January 24th, my social justice group visited an ATI which stands for Alternative to Incarceration. This ATI was a place where m [...]
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