This is a selection of the slide presentation for Renfroe Middle School to pitch our plan to reduce their food waste in the school cafeteria. I created this Google Slides presentation and presented the full version of it to Renfroe Middle School parents, administration, and read more
This paper was part of my final group project for ANTH 301, Collective Behavior and Social Movements. I worked with 2 other Agnes Scott students to create a Movement Action Plan for a social movement of our choosing. We chose Food Security for our movement, as it encompasses food insecurity, hunger, community involvement, sustainability, as well as many other social and historical factors. This is an academic paper that draws on historical and current social structures to explain the current situation Atlanta is in, ultimately showing how historical factors continue to affect the food sphere in Atlanta and beyond. It also offers a plan to counteract or eliminate some of these patterns of discrimination and food insecurity. This paper showcases not only how we combined many different social and historical concepts to create a straight-forward plan for the social movement, but also how well we worked as a group. By combining our ideas, interests, and expertise in different subject matters, we were able to create a plan that encompasses many different aspects of society and produce a multi-dimensional plan for a movement against food insecurity. In creating this project, I realized how important it is to collaborate with others to create effective, multi-disciplinary plans for action, which is something that I hope to continue to be able to do in the future.
This is a guided meditation that I created as a final project for a class called Morphology of Plants on Mount Desert Island, a class I took at College of the Atlantic in Maine (2014). During the presentation, I turned the lights down and asked my peers to close their eyes as they listened to me read.
I originally came up with this idea when I was trying to create an environment that would be least stressful for me, the presenter. However, what I didn’t realize is that it also relieved pressure and stress from the audience as well. When presenting this piece, I noticed the tension in the room recede. After the presentation, the class provided feedback and the consensus was that this presentation was not only effective at introducing information, but also relieving the stress of finals, if just for a few minutes.
The major take-away for me after presenting this project is that thinking creatively about the way information is presented can be both a process of reflection for the individual (in my case, not liking public speaking) and a process of exploration for the audience. After creating and presenting this piece, I realized that I would like to continue to explore ways of sharing information and providing unique experiences for people in the future as well.
