Awarded TLC Grant for ‘Walking in My Shoes’ ProjectIn the Fall of 2016 I was awarded a grant through the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at the CUNY Graduate Center. According to TLC, these awards providing recipients with up to $2,500 are intended to “support the planning, execution, and public reflection upon a teaching and learning project that extends beyond an individual assignment, and which will make a broader contribution to conversations about teaching and learning.” This grant was awarded to me in support of the ‘Walking in My Shoes’ Project. The ‘Walking in My Shoes’ Project is a radical oral history project that aims to collect and deploy narratives of long-time residents to generate community-centered public policy. This project has been developed in the context of and in relation to de Blasio’s affordable housing plan, which at present, entails the rezoning of 15 neighborhoods across the city. Another important component of this project and more relevant to the TLC grant, is that the ‘Walking in My Shoes’ project will grow from discrete semester-long projects that will be designed for and in part, in collaboration with, my students.
For more information on this project:For a longer description of the project:[gview file=”http://opencuny.org/kristenhackett/files/2016/11/Walking-in-My-Shoes-Project-Description.pdf”] |