Austin Pfiffner serves as an AmeriCorps member with Campus Compact K2H Civic Futures at Mikva Challenge in Chicago, Illinois. Tell us a bit about your project! Mikva Challenge's goal is to give young kids from diverse backgrounds a political voice. What I do is deal with data evaluations and other data that is worked with the company. I gather the data and analyze it to see what we can improve in the long run. I also get to see input on how a non-for-profit is run and how much of an impact we have on the youth What have you learned from your AmeriCorps K2H service? I have learned a little bit about myself and who I want to be in the future. I have also learned that I do want to be a data analyst in the future. Also, I learned that my team and all AmeriCorps members are great people and have great stories to learn from. What...

Ashley Lewandoski serves as an AmeriCorps member with Campus Compact K2H Civic Futures at Brady High School in Lakewood, Colorado.  Tell us a bit about your project! The BUILD Summit Presentation was held virtually on Zoom this year! This is a moment to highlight the student’s hard work this semester. We had presentations about real estate, child psychology, and Habitat for Humanity. A student who was an apprentice at a real estate company expressed how the owner of the business had to pay people’s rent out of pocket because of the eviction order by the Governor. She found out firsthand how important it is to have a savings/reserve for a business for emergencies like this year. I helped coordinate and create with the BUILD Internship Program team behind the scenes to make sure their ePortfolios were ready for a big audience to see on their big day. During this presentation, they also talked about their community service hours I was…

May Helena Plumb @mayhplumb This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts by participants in the 2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grant project “Ticha: advancing community-engaged digital scholarship” (PI Lillehaugen) published on GlobalSL / Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and Ticha. Previous blog posts are available here: (1) Lillehaugen/January 2020; (2) Flores-Marical/February 2020; (3) Kawan-Hemler/March 2020; (4) Lopez/July 2020; (5) Kadlecek/1 August 2020; (6) García Guzmán/15 August 2020; (7) Park/September 2020; (8) Zarafonetis/October 2020, (9) J. Lopez/Nov 2020, (10) Velasco Vasquez/February 2021, (11) Lillehaugen/March 2021. The Ticha team started 2020 with a few goals: expand the resources available on the Ticha website, write a set of pedagogical materials, and workshop those pedagogical materials with Zapotec community members. Knowing little of what was to come, we started making big plans. In a meeting last December, the team took some time to reflect on what we had actually accomplished in 2020. Many of our original plans did not work out in the…