Action Week Community Tour volunteers? :)

[Maya Gebeily]

Hi gang!

I hope you guys are all doing terrifically! Hang in tight, cause this email is a long one -- but is important! 

Alejandra and I are planning the Friday of Action Week, and our theme is Community. We'd like to have community tours in 3-4 different neighborhoods during the day, and we need your help to carry out some thoughtful tours in the neighborhoods where we work!

The time spent in the neighborhoods will be cut into two parts. (Before we get there, we'll have provided participants with some general history, demographics, and general context through the van ride). 

Once we actually arrive, we'd like to meet with a community partner -- someone who has worked (and/or lived) in this neighborhood, and who will be able to give tour participants a picture of this neighborhood's particular history, specific challenges or recent changes it has faced, resource access/advocacy efforts in the neighborhood, etc. We're hoping this conversation will last somewhere between 30-40 minutes and will challenge participants' perceptions of access to resources in the District, as well as how they perceive the word "community." 

After this conversation, we'd like to let participants have about 45 minutes of unstructured time in the neighborhood, with the understanding that this time should be used to thoughtfully engage with what they see around them -- something like what we did for this semester's community tours. Participants will be tasked with observing and discussing understandings of community, of resource access, of strengths and challenges of the neighborhood as they're seen by the local residents. We're intentionally leaving the goals relatively broad and unstructured, because we want participants to broaden their comfort zone and to get creative -- we don't want to give a set of specific buildings to look at or questions to ask, because we want the engagement as a whole to be organic and real. 

We're hoping to have these tours occur in Columbia Heights and Chinatown, and to have one or two of you guys lead the tour. Leaders would be responsible for giving the contextual background during the van ride over to the community, for framing the conversations throughout the tour in a way that focuses on engagement, advocacy, and community, and for guiding a group reflection after returning to campus. 

SO, who's interested in helping lead these tours (someone not on the Action Week committee) -- they'd be FRIDAY, APRIL 19th, and you can lead either a tour from 10 AM - 1 PM or from 12 PM - 3 PM. 

What do you guys think??? 

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Maya Gebeily

School of Foreign Service, Class of 2013

Georgetown University

mjg...@georgetown.edu 

[Maya Gebeily]

Hey guys! Still need your help on this one - let me know what you think, if you're available to help lead a tour, etc etc! So much love! 

[Carly Rosenfield]

would the 12-3 tour be leaving campus at 12pm? i get out of class at 12:15 but could leave a bit early and would love to help out with a columbia heights tour :)

2013/4/7 Maya Gebeily <mjg...@georgetown.edu>

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Carly Rosenfield

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