Creator: Anna Sorokina We created a website for the course that will contain this semester’s, as well as past and future, student projects….
Energy Transitions and Climate Resilience Course Website
College: College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly
Creator: Andre Armero This was a presentation given by Andre on his service at Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly….
Tips and Tricks for Tutoring High School Writing
Creators: Daniel Salazar, Mali DiMeo, Ffion Timuss, Alexa Siino, Sarah Niemi, Savita Maharaj, William Huang, Karl Sethna, Molly Allen, Brien Johnson, Sasha Shenk, Lily Richards Our submission is a step-by-step guide to tutoring writing for high school students. The artifact is a group sourced project that is representative of our class experiences at the John…
Servicio con Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly
Creator: Alissah Sillah This is a presentation about Alissah’s weekly service at Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly….
Codman Academy Climate Change Poster
Creator: Swasti Dadhich The poster that I made advocates for the students of Codman Academy to strike on Fridays for climate change. A public school like Codman Academy will have greater impact on the local administration and might gain media attention, promoting change in local policy regarding climate change. School strikes across the U.S. have…
System Map of Immigrant Students in K-12 Boston Public Schools
Creator: Abigail Kohout Youth Trauma- https://kumu.io/smithtimo/youth-trauma-part2#youth Criminal Justice- https://morgansteiner.kumu.io/barriers-and-opportunities-for-people-post-incarcerated Food Security- https://lilymittnight.kumu.io/food-security-for-boston-households?token=Wl6SQ8Qv51EajcYS Mental Health- https://juliamoore.kumu.io/access-to-mental-healthcare Reproductive Justice- https://kensheyj.kumu.io/reproductive-justice-access-to-reproductive-health-care Environmental Justice- https://mannixju.kumu.io/vulnerabilities-to-environmental-injustice?token=jGDwRk6FPyOv89x7 Education- https://martinezr.kumu.io/access-to-good-higher-education?token=l7rwT5Ws99Lgdw3l Immigration- https://ccardelle.kumu.io/immigration?token=3IrT6DF8L3aEnY35 Our class, The Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy, and Social Change, focuses on holistic, systems-thinking approaches to social change in the nonprofit sector. The final project is to make systems maps to…
Seeing Boston Neighborhoods through Administrative Data
Creator: Taylor Drysdale Students in Professor O’Brien’s Big Data For Cities this semester worked with data from Twitter, AirBnB, Google Places, Open Street Maps, and Craigslist. Throughout the semester they explored the data to find new and interesting ways that local municipalities could utilize this “Big Data”. Guest experts from public, private, and non-profit organizations…
Video Reflections on Service-Learning and First-Year Writing
Creator: Emily B. Avery-Miller In these short videos, we share our experiences working with four local non-profits that provide services to young people and English-language learners in Boston….
Eligible Units and Airbnbs
Creator: Forrest Hangen The City of Boston has regulated the usage of residential units for short-term rentals, including Airbnbs. This work explores the potential effects of these regulations on the current landscape of Airbnb. The findings suggest that there are many Airbnbs that are currently ineligible to be short-term rentals and that there are likely to be shifts…
Social Change & Human Services Reflections
Creators: Ariana Matos, Ana De-Niz These are two reflections of students in both sections of HUSV 1101 about their time serving with their community partners….