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Welcome back to my blog! This post is for the second Action Project of the STEAM class, Social Entrepreneurship. In this second unit, Develop, we have been learning about what makes a business, especially social ones. A social enterprise is a business aimed at addressing a social cause where investors make investments with a vision of contributing to social welfare and not profit entirely. We focused heavily on analyzing the bits and pieces of businesses, such as their mission/vision statements, legal structures, marketing strategies, and more. For Field Experiences, we spoke with Eric Davis, the founder of Global Citizenship Experience Lab School (GCE). Having the chance to meet Eric was incredible because he was the founder of the school I have attended for 3 years, going on 4. It was interesting to hear his vision for the school and the importance creating GCE has had on his life. Leading up to the Action Project, we were asked to create as many business ideas as possible and eventu...

Welcome back to my blog! This post is for the second Action Project of the Humanities class, Equality. In this unit, Hxstory, we continued our conversations from the previous unit about the inequalities of race, gender, and class in society. We focused on reparations for slavery, Critical Race Theory, Brown v. Board of Education, and micro-aggressions that can contribute to racial tensions between groups. For Field Experiences, we spoke with Isabel Strauss, a designer and architect investigating how architecture can be used to create an egalitarian society in her Master's thesis project, Architecture of Reparations. We also met with Anthony Holmes, a survivor of the torture enacted by the Chicago Police Department from 1972-1991. Finally, we traveled to the Weinberg/Newton Gallery and met with Lisa Lindvay, the education director for the gallery For Those Without Choice exhibit. This talk helped us think about how race, gender, and class inequities are impacted by laws and policies...