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INTRODUCTION “The History of Our Soil” is an interactive exhibt embedded in Henry Shaw’s Tower Grove House at the Missouri Botanical Garden that shared the history of enslaved individuals who…
Introduction In spring 2024, I taught the implementation semester for CODE Scholars Madison Delgado, Arianna Grimes, Spencer Steele, Mary Underwood, and Stephen Watkins. The team was among the first cohort…
Pop quiz! True or False? Over the past forty years, the world’s population has doubled. Our use of water has quadrupled. Yet the amount of water on Earth has stayed…
Faculty Mentors Dr. Adriana Martinez and Dr. Jacqueline Shea Community Partners Heartlands Conservancy, Jackie Joyner Kersee Food Agriculture and Nutrition Innovation Center (JJK FAN), and Cahokia Public Library District CODE…
My research with violence-impacted youth in Alton, Illinois, has served as a catalyst for personal growth and professional inspiration. Working closely with the Alton communities has shaped my perspective on…
The presentation has the potential to inspire both the high school leaders and the youth to think critically about the role of community in their lives and to share these…
This presentation is aimed at school admin, facilitators, and/or anyone who has wanted to start an after-school/extracurricular program for students. In it, I reflect on all of the things we…
We created this crime map as a tool to visualize the relationship between violent crime and spatial injustice. It is a heat map of crimes reported in Alton for 2020-2024…
How do you cross a river? It sounds like a silly question, especially in a region with so many bridges. But for transit users in metro St. Louis, the Mississippi…