Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog! I started this as a way to keep track of all the arts-based community development, youth development, education, urban planning and other resources that I come across through the research for my thesis. I figured what better way to keep it all in one place. I thought it might be useful to others, especially since I haven't found any sites that specialize in these topics by combining them.

I'm just getting started and have a whole bunch of stuff to get up here so please check back. You'll probably notice that most of my resources have Midwest slant to them. I was born and raised in SE Michigan, went to school at Eastern Michigan University (love EMU!) for music and I'm finishing up my graduate studies at DePaul University in Public Service Management. I'll be putting a CV up soon if you want to know more about me. I love Michigan and have a particular obsession with the wonderful city and people of Detroit. Even though I'm not a native Detroiter I spread the positives about the city to anyone who will listen- so much so that I know that a few of you out there are tired of hearing about it! Oh well :-P

I just went to the Rust Belt to Artist Belt conference in Detroit. What an inspirational two days! More to come on that later. Got to fill my belly with my fave schwarma at Bucharest Grill (sorry if I breathed on you after), gave some love to Cliff Bells and enjoyed a wonderful meal courtesy of Detroit Restaurant Week and Atlas Global Bistro. Was greeted by almost every person that I passed on the street; something I will never tire of. Thanks for being you Detroit.

I have to go for now. Thanks for checking me out! Keep building creative communities!