A semester of hard work is coming to a close as I uploaded the video portion of my project covering Jeff McAvoy. To celebrate my victory in the AP Style Bowl I spent several hours putting the finishing touches on this video that took a few months of planning.
A major challenge of this project was finding a way to show my Trinity fellow’s work. This was difficult because his job as marketing and communications manager has him behind a desk a lot of the time. A few ideas were thrown around in conversations with Professor Lowe and Carole Ferrara. One of my favorite ideas was to show the work that the Urban Ecology Center does with children. The issue with this was that I was in class at the times that the kids were visiting the agency. It would have been simple enough to cover an event McAvoy was working at and film him interacting at a gathering that he was in charge of publicizing. The issue with this idea is that it would not have made for an interesting video. The search was on to find an idea that had a little drama. When Professor Lowe asked me how the organization started it got me thinking. McAvoy mentioned that a neighborhood in trouble banded together to clean up their park and that mission eventually became the Urban Ecology Center. My last meeting with him was great as he explained in much greater detail the dramatic story about how the area changed through the agency. A neighborhood in crisis needed to find a way to clean up a park that had witnessed drug deals and even a murder. One main idea behind this project is that heinous crime is less likely to happen where children are. As the clean up of the park began kids began to make appearances. Over time the crime moved on out and the presence of children continued and grew. McAvoy make this story easy to tell as he was able to tie the current mission to the original goals in his interview. In order to learn more about McAvoy, the Urban Ecology Center and the Trinity Fellows Program check in next week when all of our projects will be displayed online.
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