One Week Later: We Should Be Celebrating the Stories

One week ago, in Burlington and Winooski, I learned that the very best part of our project is talking to...

Notes from WtS Louisville, KY: Crafting Purpose Statements

What’s the Story? Louisville Youth Community Wellness Advocates (WtSL) participants continued their program’s pilot year at Valaterra, a retreat center...

New, Complex Perspectives and My Evolving Understanding

Yesterday, I interviewed UVM associate professor Cynthia Reyes for the second time, along with a doctoral student with whom she...

ALL ARE WELCOME

  On the 23rd of January our team pulled off a day of immense productivity that took weeks of coordinating...

Looking at the new year

The past couple of weeks have been mind opening. Between the inauguration and the women’s march, I was so sad...

#12 – Our second interview…

#12 – Our second interview…

It is January 26th, and we only have one interview done. I have to admit, I’m a little stressed, but...

Big Picture

Hi all! This Monday, I shadowed at the Big Picture school in South Burlington. While I was there, I interviewed...

An Intensive Day of Interviewing and Consequent Realizations

Yesterday, our team visited Winooski and Burlington all day, conducting the bulk of our interviews. Organizing this was actually quite...

Post Winooski/Burlington Day

Wow! That day went by very quickly,and my team and I learned so much about interviewing and Winooski’s ELL program...

My first Interview with Natalie Meyer

Interview date: 1/10/17 3:30 Coming into the Interview: One of the hardest parts about preparing before the interview was getting...

Make War, Not “Peace”

We’re teaching girls to be quiet and submissive. We’re teaching girls to make themselves as small as possible, to starve...

Thus Far: Productivity, Sacrifice, and One Cohesive Unit.

This past few weeks, we have been extremely productive and prolific in the collecting of footage. This is in part...

Interview Reflection

Our first interview, one that we did at CVU, went well. We were interviewing Andrew Silverman, a student at CVU...

Today is the Big Day- Winooski/Burlington Interviews

Today my group and I are going to Winooski and Burlington schools, to have a full day of interviewing! Our group...

Productive week

My group met at CVU last week, where Grace and I planned to film the first video of the web-series....

Finding the pieces and fitting them together

Progress update It’s been over a month since the retreat and I feel like our team has made some really...

DIRECTIONS – January Saturday Work Session: 1.14.17

There are 29 days left of filming. Then, we will pivot to construct documentaries and other multimodal narratives. First, I wanted...

The Process of Communicating, Collaborating, and Planning

These past few weeks have definitely required the most consistent work for this course so far this year, in that...

Interviewee Contact List

Organizations: Animal Rights Advocacy: Mercy for Animals: alicec@mercyforanimals.org PETA: peta2@peta.org American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA): lobby@aspca.org Humane Society...

A Conversation with Kathy

Today I experienced a very different pre-interview than the last one I had, and a pre-interview that will likely take me...

First Priority

Happy New Year everyone! Well that’s the expectation at least, but in reality I haven’t had the happiest first couple...