Congratulations to the five GEC members from this year's cohort whose community-engaged research projects have been awarded funding through our competitive grants program.
Mavis Gyesi
Mavis’s project will work with schools in Cape Coast, Ghana to explore how open access educational materials can support students from disadvantaged, low-income communities to collaborate in classrooms without being constrained by socioeconomic status, time or geographic location.
Yuchen Liu
Yuchen’s project will work with local nonprofit organizations, including Open Heartland, to explore how storytelling and technology can support education and intercultural communication, and training for diverse communities from a wide range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
Frankline Matanji
Frankline’s project will explore the role of digital media in community fundraising and empowerment in Kenya.
Diana Brace
Diana’s project will collaborate with InsideOut Reentry Community to tell the stories of people impacted by the incarceration system and share these stories on a digital platform in order to lift up marginalized voices and effect change.
Megan Dehner
Megan’s project will partner with the Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County to provide opportunities for kids in their after school and educational programs to visit the new Stanley Museum of Art, providing kids who often don’t have access to art museums the opportunity to engage with world-renown art at the University of Iowa.