Making Justice: Building Community with Hands-on Learning
Thursday, March 22, 2018, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 204 ABC
Learn how to develop, facilitate, and evaluate a maker program that fosters community building in this Making Justice workshop! Making Justice – a Madison (WI) Public Library Bubbler program – addresses the nation’s widest black/white educational achievement gap and highest per capita black juvenile arrest/incarceration rate. Diverse participants – including court-involved and at-risk teens; local artists, activists and educators; and university students – bridge cultural, technological and neighborhood divides as they collaborate on written, audio, visual, performance and life-skills projects.
At the end of this session, participants will:
1: Reflect on how public libraries can provide innovative learning experiences to at-risk youth 2: Experience hands-on, peer-supported learning that fosters community building 3: Know how to develop creative tools to evaluate teaching and learning
The session organizer(s) identified this session as appropriate for:
Level 1: People with no previous knowledge of the topic.
This session will have: High interaction (examples: facilitated discussion; small group collaborative work; hands-on activity or application)
Track: Collaborate
Tags: Leadership, Civic Engagement, Leadership, Outreach Services, Partnerships and Collaboration, Social Change, Transforming Libraries
Presenters
Jesse Vieau, Teen Services Librarian
Madison Public Library , Madison , WI
Jesse Vieau is a Teen Services Librarian with Madison Public Library. He is the lead organizer for the library's Teen Bubbler operations, including the Making Justice program for at-risk and court-involved teens. Vieau centers his energies on establishing the public library as a platform for engaging teens in hands-on learning by coordinating creative and innovative art and media workshops that emphasize connecting teens to people resources in the local community. www.teenbubbler.org
Veronica Hereford, Intervention Program Lead
Neighborhood Intervention Program/Dane County Human Services , Madison , WI
Veronica Hereford is a Program Leader with the Neighborhood Intervention Program (NIP) of Dane County Humans Services. With years of experience in "capacity building" with court-involved youth, her ADDS-II program is guided by the Restorative Justice Principles of Accountability, Community Protection and Competency development. Veronica focuses her energies for adolescent females in educational support and advocacy in Madison?s public schools; employment readiness and attainment; family support/engagement and advocacy; individual goal setting; competency development.
Carlos Gacharna, Artist
100state , Madison , WI
Carlos Eduardo Gacharná is a Colombian artist who has made a life out of creating interactive spaces for others to explore. His hope is for these spaces to bridge gaps between communities - in the classroom, in the gallery, and across the globe. As a maker he constructs material explorations of matter and light to express contemplative ideas surrounding identity, ritual, and the human touch.
Nancy Buenger, Public Historian
formerly UW-Madison faculty and Making Justice co-founder , Philadelphia , PA
Nancy Buenger co-developed Making Justice from 2014-16 as a faculty associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Library and Information Studies. A public historian, Buenger's work spans makerspaces, community outreach, museums and the juvenile justice system. In addition to teaching community engagement courses, she has developed public humanities initiatives in collaboration with the UW-Madison Center for Law, Society and Justice, the Institute for Legal Studies at the UW Law School, and the Chicago History Museum.
Alan Chancellor, Intervention Program Lead
Neighborhood Intervention Program/Dane County Human Services , Madison , WI
Alan Chancellor is a Program Leader with the Neighborhood Intervention Program (NIP) of Dane County Humans Services. With years of experience in "capacity building" with court-involved youth, his ADDS-II program is guided by the Restorative Justice Principles of Accountability, Community Protection and Competency development. Alan focuses his energies for adolescent males in educational support and advocacy in Madison?s public schools; employment readiness and attainment; family support/engagement and advocacy; individual goal setting; competency development.