{"id":5583,"date":"2015-03-13T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:52:55","slug":"k-seniors-win-davis-project-for-peace-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-seniors-win-davis-project-for-peace-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"K Seniors Win Davis Project for Peace Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5591\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/llisonKennedy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5591 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/llisonKennedy1.jpg\" alt=\"Allison Kennedy\" width=\"230\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/llisonKennedy1.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/llisonKennedy1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison Kennedy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College seniors Jasmine An and Allison Kennedy will receive a $10,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davisprojectsforpeace.org.\/\"><strong>Davis<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davisprojectsforpeace.org.\/\">Project for Peace<\/a> <\/strong>grant to implement a five-week creative writing and leadership workshop for previously incarcerated individuals in Kalamazoo. Both women are fellows at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/csjl\/\">Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership<\/a><\/strong> (ACSJL). The workshop aims to reduce the stigma of incarceration and promote peace and stability in the community.\u00a0The two also serve as Civic Engagement Scholars for the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/\"><strong>Center for Civic Engagement<\/strong><\/a> (CCE). In fact, it was a CCE creative writing partnership with the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative that formed the basis of the project that was awarded the Davis Project for Peace grant. (According to CCE Director Alison Geist, nearly every K recipient of a Davis Project for Peace grant has been a Civic Engagement Scholar, and all have been leaders in CCE programming).<\/p>\n<p>An and Kennedy will partner with Michigan United, a local organization that addresses incarceration and re-entry challenges faced by individuals in Kalamazoo. The ACSJL will donate space and supplies. The work will culminate in an anthology of work that highlights how Kalamazoo is confronting incarceration. An article on the seniors\u2019 workshops appeared in the February issue of <em>BeLight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Projects for Peace invites all undergraduates at the 91 American colleges and universities that are partners in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to compete for these grants. A total of 127 projects were awarded implementation in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5592\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/essicaAn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5592 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/essicaAn.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine An\" width=\"230\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine An<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>K\u2019s history with the program is a successful one. Kalamazoo College students have used these awards each of the past seven years to conduct projects in Thailand, Kenya, Pakistan, Jamaica, Haiti, and Kalamazoo. An\u2019s and Kennedy\u2019s project will be the second carried out in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Projects for Peace was the vision of philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Until her death at 106 in 2013, Mrs. Davis was intent on advancing the cause of peace and sought to motivate tomorrow\u2019s promising leaders by challenging them to find ways to &#8220;prepare for peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College seniors Jasmine An and Allison Kennedy will receive a $10,000 Davis Project for Peace grant to implement a five-week creative writing and leadership workshop for previously incarcerated individuals in Kalamazoo. Both women are fellows at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL). The workshop aims to reduce the stigma of incarceration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[30,20,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-awards","tag-social-justice","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>K Seniors Win Davis Project for Peace Grant - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College seniors Jasmine An and Allison Kennedy will receive a $10,000 Davis Project for Peace grant to implement a five-week creative writing\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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href=\"http:\/\/www.davisprojectsforpeace.org.\/\"><strong>Davis<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davisprojectsforpeace.org.\/\">Project for Peace<\/a> <\/strong>grant to implement a five-week creative writing and leadership workshop for previously incarcerated individuals in Kalamazoo. Both women are fellows at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/csjl\/\">Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership<\/a><\/strong> (ACSJL). The workshop aims to reduce the stigma of incarceration and promote peace and stability in the community.\u00a0The two also serve as Civic Engagement Scholars for the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/\"><strong>Center for Civic Engagement<\/strong><\/a> (CCE). In fact, it was a CCE creative writing partnership with the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative that formed the basis of the project that was awarded the Davis Project for Peace grant. (According to CCE Director Alison Geist, nearly every K recipient of a Davis Project for Peace grant has been a Civic Engagement Scholar, and all have been leaders in CCE programming).<\/p>\n<p>An and Kennedy will partner with Michigan United, a local organization that addresses incarceration and re-entry challenges faced by individuals in Kalamazoo. The ACSJL will donate space and supplies. The work will culminate in an anthology of work that highlights how Kalamazoo is confronting incarceration. An article on the seniors\u2019 workshops appeared in the February issue of <em>BeLight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Projects for Peace invites all undergraduates at the 91 American colleges and universities that are partners in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to compete for these grants. A total of 127 projects were awarded implementation in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5592\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/essicaAn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5592 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/03\/essicaAn.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine An\" width=\"230\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine An<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>K\u2019s history with the program is a successful one. Kalamazoo College students have used these awards each of the past seven years to conduct projects in Thailand, Kenya, Pakistan, Jamaica, Haiti, and Kalamazoo. An\u2019s and Kennedy\u2019s project will be the second carried out in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Projects for Peace was the vision of philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Until her death at 106 in 2013, Mrs. Davis was intent on advancing the cause of peace and sought to motivate tomorrow\u2019s promising leaders by challenging them to find ways to &#8220;prepare for peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13809,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/13809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}