Through SOCL 3100, I completed a civic apprenticeship with Otterbein University’s NEW Office of Social Justice and Activism. With the director of the OSJA (Office of Social Justice and Activism), we worked together to design a program to replace their Tunnel of Oppression that they could no longer hold. Together, we created a weeklong event consisting of five different presentations focusing on different subjects. Our event was, Social Justice Week. My responsibility was to think about different subjects we could cover, and find different departments or speakers we could get to present and reach out to them. The topics we covered were Gender Diversity, Poverty and Class, Being an Ally, and Social Justice for the Deaf. We had the Women's, Gender …show more content…
Proactive in bringing the availability of resources to the attention of others.” I believe my Social Justice Week accomplished this in two ways. First, I had to find resources on Otterbein’s campus that were willing to speak on these subjects. The second way was each presenter represented different resources on campus that students can utilize. For example, on Monday with Gender Diversity 101, the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Resource Center was able to promote their services on campus. The other Community Engagement Learning Outcome I believe my event falls under is Multi-Literate, which “Examines community issues using multiple perspectives (economic, political, historical, ethical, etc.) and applies perspectives to a specific project.” On the second day, we focused on Poverty and Class and had three different speakers. We had Otterbein’s Promise House that is the campus food pantry, Zach Reat who worked for Ohio Mid Food Bank and Barb McKenzie who has studied poverty and senior living. We had three different perspectives and worked together to bring their subjects to light. I believe that I grew in this experience because I was able to learn how to organize a huge campus wide event, and more about each of the different subjects. I did not know that there was a big movement in social justice for the deaf, and I was very fortunate that we had them present and I learned so much on the