Outreach

African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County (AACHM)

I volunteer at the museum, which runs primarily on volunteers, staffing the front desk to help keep its doors open. Through the museum I joined the Woodlawn Cemetery restoration effort, a community-led project to uncover and archive the headstones of a historically Black cemetery in Ypsilanti. At listening sessions I record the stories and concerns of residents and descendants for the executive committee, so that restoration proceeds on the community’s terms.

• Visit AACHM

MI DNA Day

I volunteer with MI DNA Day, a statewide program that brings scientists into Michigan high school classrooms to teach hands-on lessons about genetics and to talk with students about what a career in science can look like.