April 12, 2019
Bow Elementary-Middle School
This was one of my favorite (and biggest) care package events to date. It was the first event in partnership with the wonderful Adelia Davis. She is a recent University of Michigan graduate and now attends graduate school at the University of Chicago.
She runs her own storytelling initiatives in Detroit Public Schools that amplify diverse voices, as well as focus on how these students are the authors of their own stories.
A group of six volunteers from Adams High School and I spent the day with 140 third and fourth graders at Detroit’s Bow Elementary-Middle School.
The care packages consisted of two books, journals, and writing supplies. For the in-class activities, we brought construction paper, newspapers and magazines, journaling prompts, and mirrors so the students could craft empowering self-portraits, write poems, share what we are grateful for, and read together.
This was the first event we integrated tailored educational workshops, and I’m so excited to continue working with Adelia to create programs that encourage self-love and intellectual curiosity.
