Educated and Empowered: The Process of a Cross-Cultural Community Collaboration

Christen Barbierri; Jalissa Worthy; Alexandria Richards; Jennifer R. Jewell; Michele Schlehofer

doi:10.33596/coll.63

Educated and Empowered: The Process of a Cross-Cultural Community Collaboration

Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice

Volume 4 (2021): Issue 1

By: Christen Barbierri , Jalissa Worthy , Alexandria Richards , Jennifer R. Jewell and Michele Schlehofer

Open Access

|Mar 2021

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the process by which a team of interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate students, together with their faculty, engaged in a semester-long project in which they partnered with and planned a community-facing event with, by,
and for the local Haitian immigrant community. The event, Educated and Empowered, consisted of a three-hour long community fair which provided members of the local Haitian community with resources on area social service agencies, opportunities forcivic engagement, and an outlet for building social capital via both intra-cultural
bonding and cross-cultural bridging. A discussion of the key take-aways (lessons
learned) and reflections on student learning are provided.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/coll.63 | Journal eISSN: 2638-4396

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Published on: Mar 23, 2021

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Keywords:

cross-cultural collaborations,

community empowerment,

Haitian immigrant,

social capital,

civic engagement

© 2021 Christen Barbierri, Jalissa Worthy, Alexandria Richards, Jennifer R. Jewell, Michele Schlehofer, published by University of Miami Libraries
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