Introduction My name is Elizabeth Haudrich, and I am a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh. During the spring 2022 semester, I will be an Honors College STEAM Ambassador at the Pitt Community Engagement Center in the Hill District. As a freshman in her second semester of college, my academic and professional goals continue to…
Tag: Community Engagement
Community Leadership Internship – A Final Look Into The Mirror
During this past fall semester, I was able to focus on refining my resource and opening up channels from which I could receive feedback. As far as the former of those goes, I feel I was successful. I added a foreword containing my own self-reflection on the manual’s purpose, as well as an appendix containing…
Advancing Fair Housing Policy in Local Government (Season 1: Eps: 5)
Listen to Pitt student Isabel Weir interview Pitt alum Marcus Robinson (Class of 2017) about his role as Commissioner for the LGBTQIA+ Commission for the City of Pittsburgh and as a Housing Compliance Analyst at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh. Marcus shares his insight on local government’s ability to strengthen connections with the community,…
Engaging in Effective Social Work during COVID-19 (Season 1: Eps: 4)
Listen to Pitt student Katelyn Morrison interview Pitt alum Paula Woods-Thomas (MSW 2009) regarding Paula’s career as a social worker in the Department of Veterans Affairs. While the need for social work has remained unchanged, Paula points out the ways in which delivery of services and equitable access to resources have been impacted by the…
Liberatory Pedagogy (Season 1: Eps: 3)
Listen to Pitt student Maia Stephenson interview Pitt alum and current doctoral candidate Olivia Enders (Class of 2013) about her academic work regarding the school-to-prison pipeline, exclusionary bias in educational spaces, purposefully resistant student behavior, and the use of education as a liberatory strategy. Find out what Olivia thinks about online learning during COVID-19 and…
Civic Engagement as Responsibility: Building Meaningful Connections in Diverse Settings (Season 1: Eps: 1)
Listen to Pitt student Aparna Ramani interview Pitt alum Dwight Pullen Jr. (Class of 1994) regarding his inspiring and extensive record of community and civic engagement work throughout his life and career. Dwight views civic engagement as a responsibility, and is a proponent of building trust and making connections in diverse environments by engaging colleagues…