Strengthen Communities

Female student with hand on chin smiling at other student

Abstract

This project will build on the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s Frank Bolden Workshop, which for 40 years has trained students in writing, self-development, and self-confidence.

Project Lead

Abdesalam Soudi
Linguistics

Select Collaborators

Judy Chang
Magee Women’s Hospital

Shelome Gooden
Linguistics

Audrey Murrell
David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership

Jeannette South-Paul
Family Medicine

Abstract

This project draws on the Linguistics department’s existing internship program and aims to create an engagement platform for connecting linguistics to the community and industry, and ultimately, a center to house this program.

Female student smiling and laughing

Abstract

Our purpose it to strengthen education research and practice to be culturally responsive to a changing demographic of students in the U.S. by developing a sustainable, impactful, transdisciplinary continuum of wrap-around support services for minoritized graduate students (MGS).

We will: