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By Christina SpanAs the community outreach component of the Student Planning Association, the Social Justice Committee seeks to create opportunities for students to practice their planning skills by participating in projects in underserved communities that lack resources, power, or voice, in an effort to raise social justice awareness at Georgia Tech. Founded in 2009, the Social Justice Committee has been active in a number of projects ranging from designing a plan for a community garden for the Pittsburgh Community Improvement Association to organizing the GT Jam for Haiti, a concert to raise funds for two Atlanta-based organizations assisting in relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti.This school year, the Social Justice Committee continued to stay busy, with a volunteer group of twenty students working on four projects, including:
- developing a housing inventory for the Grove Park Community Land Trust, led by Dan Cotter (MCRP ’13), which will enable the community to raise funds and identify areas for land acquisition for the development of affordable housing;
- a research and data analysis project for the SoPo Bicycle Cooperative, led by Joel Anders (MCRP ’12), to be used for grant and funding applications;
- the panel discussion, “Coal in Your Community,” led by Emily Brown (MCRP ’12), which explored the economic, environmental and health issues related to the coal industry, and discussed alternative energy efforts and their associated impacts; and
- our most ambitious project of the year, a site-specific plan for an eight block section of the English Avenue community for New Life S.A.Y. (Save America’s Youth) Yes!, the community development corporation of the New Life Covenant Church, led by Margaret Lilly (MCRP ’13) and Emily Brown.
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- Workflow Status: Published
- Created By: Mike Alberghini
- Created: 07/16/2012
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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