Protecting Your Community and Yourselves
Equity in Advanced Mobility: A Call to Action, Part 2 Be Informed, Connect, and Take Action
Listen to the second installment of our movement to promote equitable access to advanced mobility. Whether you attended our in-person symposium or are new to this initiative, this webinar will delve deeper into strategies for empowering Historically Excluded Communities in Southeast Michigan.
ENGAGE: The Case for Reparations
Our society has discussed reparations for Black Americans due to their enslavement, exploitation, and intergenerational oppression for a long time, but not much has manifested.
ENGAGE: Safe Cities: The Movement Against Facial Recognition Technology
This discussion will explore the rising use of facial recognition technology and its growing controversy - specifically in regard to frequently misidentifying people of color, women, and trans people in comparison to white men.
The Importance of Transit Equity
Car-dependent metropolitan areas divide and isolate people from one another. Strong public transit systems and walkable and bikeable city infrastructure helps to make communities more accessible and fosters connection.
Beyond Pronouns: Cisnormativity in Social Work Practice
Throughout the history of social work practice, there has been a focus on subduing “deviance” in individuals as a means of combating larger social problems. “Deviance” being a subjective category, is often used to uphold power structures that only a few truly benefit from.
ENGAGE & The Brightmoor Alliance: Working Together to Build Brightmoor Up from the Infant Out
The Brightmoor Alliance contracted with the School of Social Work’s (SSW) ENGAGE team to facilitate a community co-design process to develop an early childhood and community change program design and evaluation.
History to Present Day: Race and Housing in Ann Arbor
As the 8th most economically segregated city in the nation, with a poverty rate that is twice the national average, unsurprisingly Ann Arbor is experiencing a housing crisis.
ENGAGE: ID's: Exclusion by Design
Identification cards allow those who have them to gain access to resources and fully participate in our society. Unfortunately, 11% of all American citizens lack an ID - that's over 12 million citizens across the country.
ENGAGE + Wallace House - Our Stories, Our Voice: Diversity in Journalism and Why it Matters
Why do Black and Brown journalists matter?
ENGAGE: Fines & Fees: Punishing the Poor and Increasing Disparity
From the cash bail system, to fines and fees while incarcerated, to the cost of reentering society, our society functions on a punitive system of fines and fees that often catapults those already experiencing hardship into a spiraling cycle of debt and repayments - never fully able to catch up.
ENGAGE: Alternatives to Policing: Unarmed Crisis Response and the Role of Social Workers
Police violence against Black bodies rightfully has forced society to look more closely at our policing and public safety practices.