Your+SL+Projects

Please give a short description of your service learning project below. Include
 * your name
 * the name of the organization you will be working with
 * contact information for the person(s) you will be working with at the organization
 * how your project relates to social justice

Trans Youth Support Network Katie Burgess transyouthsupportnetwork@gmail.com The Trans Youth Support Network is aimed specifically at trans youth, rather than adults. I will be compiling a list of resources, both locally and nationally for trans youth. They have some resources, but would like me to go through them and see if they are really what they're looking for, for the network. This project serves a sorely underserved community and brings better resources to them.
 * __Talia Earle's SL Project__**

__**Jackie Beckey's SL Project**__ RONDO Library (St. Paul Public LIbrary system) Jacob Jurss (head of Read with Me program): jacob.jurss@ci.stpaul.mn.us

The Read with Me program entails reading with 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders. This program works to develop reading and writing skills for kids. More details to come (I have my interview with Jacob today). I will be working with the community that visits RONDO library.

__**Kate Buechler****'s SL Project**__ Quatrefoil Library Karen Hogan: admin@qlibrary.org, 651.641.0969 Similar to Maddie's description, I'll be working with Quatrefoil to complete putting barcodes on the items in circulation. Karen also mentioned doing something with the marriage amendment as well as GLBT youth. These projects relate to social justice as they include working with a traditionally under-served population to help increase better access to information and resources.


 * __Michael Homolka's SL Project__**

Children’s Defense Fund of Minnesota

Miriam West (west@cdf-mn.org) 651-855-1182

Kara M. Arzamendia (arzamendia@cdf-mn.org) 651-855-1184

My project will involve producing videos and infographics for the CDF. They are low on time and resources for producing these, but they are crucial to sharing information and gathering support for their initiatives. Together, we will design the projects and I will shoot and edit the necessary footage. The first project I will work on is called “10 Facts About Child Poverty in MN”.

__**Benji Klas' SL Project**__ >>
 * Trans Youth Support Network
 * Katie Burgess: transyouthsupportnetwork@gmail.com
 * 612.208.9762
 * For my project, I am overhauling their website to make it more organized, accessible, and attractive. This is providing a higher quality access point to this organization which works with an underserved population.

__**Maddie Rudawski's SL Project**__
 * Quatrefoil Library
 * Karen Hogan: admin@qlibrary.org;
 * 651.641.0969
 * For my project, I'll be working with the library as they finish up their barcoding project. There are also a number of other projects for me to work on during my time at the library, including working on pathfinders, gathering information to oppose the upcoming marriage amendment vote, and collecting information/resources for GLBT teens (to help support teens at school districts like Anoka-Hennepin). This project relates to social justice in that Quatrefoil is a library serving the needs of the GLBT community, a community that is historically marginalized.

__**Betsy Hunter's SL Project**__
 * Rondo Community Outreach Library
 * Jacob Jurss: 651-266-7437 / jacob.jurss@stpaul.mn.us
 * For my project, I'm volunteering with the Read With Me (1st -3rd graders) and Read To Achieve (4th - 8th graders) programs. I'll be working with two children from the same family at different times in order to assist them in improving their reading and writing skills. The goal of both programs is to increase literacy skills by helping children build confidence and an interest in reading while forming positive mentoring relationships.

__**Nicole Radotich's SL Project**__ Marlin Heise (primary contact) Kou Xiong (contact while Marlin is out of the country)
 * Hmong Archives**
 * Phone: 651-621-5469 (Archives phone number)
 * Email: marlin_heise@yahoo.com
 * Email: kxiong01@hotmail.com

My service-learning project will involve converting negatives and slides into digital images. These items are chronologically numbered, but out of order. I will be organizing, scanning and creating folders so the photos are digitally accessible. This is a project the Hmong Archives has wanted to complete for a long time.

This project relates to social justice because it involves collecting and preserving cultural artifacts of a people that have called many places home (China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and now the United States and Australia). Due to the Vietnam War and violent cultural conflicts in Laos many Hmong people are refugees, which has surely made retaining culture even more difficult. Many young Hmong-Americans have assimilated into mainstream American culture, which poses a risk to losing sight of their cultural heritage. The St. Paul/Minneapolis metropolitan area is largest Hmong-American community in the United States, so the Hmong Archives in St. Paul serves as an important local //and national// resource for anyone interested in Hmong history and culture. Finally, I have almost no experience with Hmong culture and people, so this is definitely a new learning opportunity.

__**Lacey Rotier's Service Learning Project**__
 * Minnesota Internship Center High School(MNIC)** http://www.mnic.org/
 * Rachel Zucker, Health Advocacy Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA. rzucker@mnic.org Cell: 612-328-7627
 * Amy Libman, Director of Student Support Services. Phone: 612-722-5416 ext 106


 * I will be working with Rachel on a website redesign. The website needs organization, new pages, new content, and direction. Coincidently, Rachel had just mentioned to Sara Zettervall that she wanted to make a project out of doing something with the website.
 * This project relates to social justice because the school serves " who have not fared well in traditional high schools and alternative settings." The students are largely from underserved, minority, and disadvantaged populations.

**__Trent Brager’s SL Project__** **Experimental Community Education of the Twin Cities (EXCO)** http://www.excotc.org/
 * Aaron Rosenblum
 * Treasurer and General EXCO Support (rosenblum34@gmail.com)
 * EXCO provides a forum for community education to take place in the Twin Cities as a means for social change. Anyone can facilitate or take a class for free. EXCO provides spaces, sign-up/marketing support, as well as reimbursement for any supplies that are required for classes. I will be working on a project-by-project basis to help EXCO internally. My first project will be to streamline the records of all of EXCO’s past and present classes into a database with common fields. This will help in creating standardized documentation of each class and a template for future classes, which will aid in providing evidence for the need of financial support asked for by EXCO. After this project, I will be working on compiling resources for facilitators to ease the process of training in new facilitators and answering some of their FAQ’s.

__**Heather Palmer's Project**__
**Organization: **World Savvy www.worldsavvy.org **Contact:** Charmagne Campbell-Patton, World Savvy Challenge Program Managercharmagne@worldsavvy.org612-564-6938 **Background:** World Savvy creates opportunities for middle and high school youth to "build their knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors for global competency through project-based learning, collaborative problem-solving, art & media exploration and creation, experiential and service-learning, and international exchange." Their organization provides youth engagement opportunities, professional development for teachers, customized consulting, and an online resource library. **My role:** I will be involved in evaluating World Savvy's existing resource library and creating interactive resources for their current theme: Sustainable Communities. I will also conduct research (availability of resources) to inform the selection of their next 3-year theme. **Link to Social Justice:** This project links to social justice in that it engages students in authentic learning experiences around a global theme, and empowers them to take informed action to address 21st century challenges locally and globally.

__** Brett's service learning project **__
Organization: Women's Prision Book Project Contact: Corinth Matera, corinthmatera@gmail.com How it relates to social justice: I will be organizing a transgender book drive by making contacts in transgender communities and setting up donation boxes. I'll then pick these up and bring them in to sort and shelf. In addition, I will create several different packets sourced from transgender works that speak to trans prisoner issues, trans health issues, transgender rights, the transgender experience, surgery and hormone options, etc.

I have connected with Jo Lightfeather at the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center Library. She is happy that I want to return to do my service learning project at their library. The details are still a little sketchy. I have been unable to sit down with either Jo or Beth to outline exactly what I will be working on. One of my ideas continues the collection development plan that my last class worked on for the Center. I thought I could help them to come up with a list of subject headings and terms to use when they catalog their collection. If they have list of designated terms and subject headings (terms that are specific to their collections and potential searches), when items are cataloged they will be more easily retrieved. Another possibility would be to continue the work of cross referencing the pamphlet files (as of last semester, these were in order alphabetically by author only). Jo recently suffered a death in her family so that could be one reason it has been difficult to connect with her. I stopped in at the Resource Center this afternoon, and it was closed.
 * __Cindy Lowe's SL Project__**

MIWRC - Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center 1113 E. Franklin, Minneapolis Jo Lightfeather - Director jlightfeather@miwrc.org 612-728-2031

__**Jeremy Miller's SL Project**__ Minnesota Internship Center (MNIC) 300 Industrial Blvd. Minneapolis, MN 55413

Amy Libman Director of Student Support Services 612.722.5416 ext. 106 alibman@mnic.org

Sara Zettervall Literacy Coordinator sarazet@gmail.com

I'm working with Amy and Sara at MNIC, a decentralized charter school. We heard a bit about its mission and students from Sara. I also learned during orientation that most of MNIC's students have attended several high schools in brief periods of time while facing other challenges, many that would feel insurmountable even as a 24 year old with many privileges and supports. I'm doing a collection development project, working in a classroom that doubles as a library. At this point I've organized nonfiction with Dewey, sorted fiction, and done some weeding. For the remaining half of the project, I'll be entering titles into LibraryThing, which Sara is using as a free catalog. At times my work doesn't seem like much or enough, but I hope that when I'm finished students will have an easier time finding a good book.