One particular Friday two weeks ago, our city was struck with the first snowfall of winter! As people forgot how to drive on slippery roads, we carefully made our way to campus for "Urban and Rural AK: Community Engagement at UAA". This conference was for networking faculty, students and community members to engage in dialogue together.

After Kirk Rose, CEO of the Anchorage Community Land Trust, gave a keynote presentation about tremendous progress in one of our historically impoverished neighborhoods, we moved into breakout sessions. Our Learning By Giving group panel was made up of our professor Dr. Judith Owens-Manley, the LBG student ambassadors, a student from the grant-writing summer class named Kim, and one of last year's grant winners. That grantee was Heidi Hill, Shelter Manager at Abused Women's Aid In Crisis (AWAIC). Mark and I created the presentation, and were asked to share our classroom experiences, as well as our role being student ambassadors for the LBG Foundation!

You can check out our Prezi below!

Learning By Giving Presentation at Urban and Rural AK Conference, UAA

P.S. -- We heard after the summit that an impressed and enthused faculty member approached the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning, wanting to have a community component in their classes like technical writing did for Learning by Giving. It is great to know this model is effective, and catching on!