CHER – The Incubator

February 1, 2022

Community Partner Video Project

This project tasked students in CACT 101 (Community Action Gateway First Year Seminar) with working with a community partner to create a video reflecting their needs and hopes. This was a long-term project with multiple submissions of items as a team. There are marginal comments. in the attached assignment description which notes what Professor Williamson would recommend doing differently next...

CHER

January 7, 2022

Health Equity Solutions Video Project

This project is a 1-minute overview video of the mission, history, and initiatives of Health Equity Solutions. Health Equity Solutions (HES) is a Hartford-based nonprofit that seeks to advance health justice in Connecticut by challenging systems of racism and economic injustice and advocating for community-supported health policy. As part of the Community Action Gateway, we collaborated with Samantha Lew from...

CHER

July 26, 2019

An Elementary Guide to Transcribing

Carlson Given and I had the opportunity to participate in summer research with the Trinity Public Humanities Collaborative. During this time we transcribed eighteenth-century manuscripts. We created a transcription guide for others learning to transcribe, explaining the process and strategies to incorporate while working.

CHER/English & Literature/History

April 3, 2019

Voces de la Migración: Archiving and Sharing the U.S. Latinx Experience in Hartford

When Américo Paredes said that castañas are where “our people put documents, things they have written, books they have read,” he did so with a sense of urgency. The reality is that much of Latinx history is not in archives or libraries. It is in old trunks, in the drawers of old desks, or in the recollections of people who...

American Studies/CHER/History/Human Rights/International Studies/Language & Culture Studies/Political Science/Public Policy and Law/Sociology/Unaffiliated/Urban Studies/Women, Gender, and Sexuality

April 2, 2019

Transmedia Campaign

My RHET-125 Writing in a Digital World class focuses on the ways that writing happens in digital environments: how writing circulates and travels across spaces and situations, how it complicates ideas of plagiarism and originality, and how the tools we use shape, and are shaped by, the audiences and contexts we write for/in. For this project, students work in groups...

CHER/Rhetoric and Writing

Category: CHER

Community Partner Video Project

Health Equity Solutions Video Project

An Elementary Guide to Transcribing

Voces de la Migración: Archiving and Sharing the U.S. Latinx Experience in Hartford

Transmedia Campaign