Monthly Archives: April 2016

Vassar’s Posse Veterans Program

Hello,

The project below is a reflection of Vassar College’s Posse Veterans Program. As the program is newer than most at this institution, it was important to unpack and discover how student veterans felt in this environment compared to how decision makers felt. As a member of this program myself, I wanted to share the experiences of two additional veterans that were on campus before I was at different years and the co-creators of this legacy program. I hope you enjoy this work.

Rough Draft

a very rough draft of my project. Im considering making it a podcast. I need to include video footage of myself

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qidg9RIhKE&feature=youtu.be

CCRC Video Ethnography (Super Rough Draft)

 

This video ethnography seeks to explore the culture of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs), asking questions about what these facilities offer and what types of people choose to live there. Through the study of one CCRC, this video tries to ascertain to what extent the community is influenced by the residents, versus the facility itself. As the population ages, issues of elder care are becoming increasingly important, and CCRCs can be seen as a mechanism by which individuals, perhaps facing declining physical and mental health, can take control of their lives.

Queer People of Color at Vassar College

This video is looking at some perspectives by queer people of color at Vassar College. Centering the analytical framework around Change the Field Vassar Report Final that Sheltreese Mccoy completed in the fall of 2015. Using her analysis as a framework I interviewed other queer people of color to see what the mental effects of living in this specific context of oppression has created for the students and the types of resistance strategies they use to counter the oppression.

R.E.A.L. Skills Network of Learning

REAL Skills Network is an after school program at the Family Partnership Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. With the leadership of Tree Arrington, elementary-aged students receive tutoring and mentoring from older students from the local middle and high schools and colleges, allowing for a long-term community of support to develop. Over time, students who go through the programs tend to do better in school and graduate and attend college at significantly higher rates compared to the general school population.

 

 

ALANA Digital Ethnography: Rough Draft

My digital ethnography intro about the ALANA Center. (Very) rough draft, having trouble with the footage I took and incorporating it.

///in unpacking the history of the ALANA Center as a discursive and dynamic space created for and by activism, this digital ethnography aims to address how race is experienced in institutional spaces. Not limited to Vassar and affinity spaces, although a large part of the conceptual basis, I aim to explore how ideas of colorblindness and policy inspired by colorblind ideals–not thinking about race in a critical way–perpetuates violence and colonial ideologies. Paying attention to race and creating policy and behaviors that invite open conversations around race are key.