Class: Telling the Stories of Your Life through Food today

Telling the Stories of Your Life through Food

3 Saturdays, March 8, March 22, 2025- 10am-12pm EDT/EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Class: ABCs of Getting Published today and tomorrow

 ABCs of Getting Published rescheduled

Sat Mar 1 10am-12pm to Sun Mar 2 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

2 Articles re MI maternal and infant health and Ypsi farmers and gardeners oral history project

My two articles published today at PBS News Hour

In Michigan, a push to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for people of color | PBS News

Michigan advocates are working to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and more equitable for communities of color.

This Michigan project celebrates the rich history of community farmers and gardeners | PBS News

A Michigan oral history project is collecting the stories of farmers and gardeners from working class communities and communities of color.

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to Induct 11 Members

Congratulations to these incredible journalists!

More at https://www.michiganmedia.com/2025/02/28/the-michigan-journalism-hall-of-fame-names-11-new-inductees 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/02/27/michigan-journalism-hall-of-fame-class-of-2025-freep-inductees/80525752007/

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/media-marketing/cindy-goodaker-named-michigan-journalism-hall-fame

February 26, 2025

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to Induct 11 Members

EAST LANSING, Michigan —11 outstanding journalists will be inducted into the 2025 class of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This year’s inductees have made significant, sustained contributions to journalism in Michigan.

They are:

Cynthia Canty, Michigan radio storyteller Alex Cruden, elevated readers and editing

Kirt Dozier, sports photographer and mentor

John Flesher, environmental journalist

Cindy Goodaker, dedicated to the news of business

Daymon J. Hartley, social issues photojournalist

Dorothy Jurney, took women's news mainstream

Keith Owens, politics and music journalist

Pat Rencher, advocate for older readers’ health

Jam Sardar, launchpad for TV stories and careers

David Zeman, editor of high-impact journalism

The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame was established to recognize those who have advanced the legacy of a free and responsible press and who have elevated Michigan journalism. Induction memorializes extraordinary and clearly outstanding careers.

The 2025 Hall of Fame class will be honored at a banquet on April 13, 2025, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing. Details about registrations and opportunities for tax-deductible sponsorships and ads are available on the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame website: https://mijournalismhalloffame.org . Questions may be directed to Betsy DeSantis at 517-353-6431 or email at desant39@msu.edu .

Co-sponsors of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame are the Michigan chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association; the Detroit chapter of the Association for Women in Communications; Central Michigan University’s Department of Journalism; the Detroit chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists; the Detroit and Mid-Michigan chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists; the Detroit Press Club; Wayne State University’s Journalism Program; the Michigan Association of Broadcasters; and the School of Journalism, Michigan State University.

MSU’s School of Journalism has been the home of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame since 1985, reprising the Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame, which became dormant in 1968. The Michigan Press Association and the MSU School of Journalism established the original Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1952.

Guest Speaker on journalism at Tufts University today

Guest Speaker on journalism at Tufts University w Ravi Shankar's class today 

Wed., Feb 26, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm EDT (Private class)

Speaking today at Writeability Guild on writing with humor

Guest Presenter on writing with humor at a Literary Picnic with Katey Schultz's Monthly Mentorship and WRITEABILITY Guild writing students. Tuesday, February 18, 7-830pm, Zoom (Private class)

Essay: Lunar New Year celebrations and birthright citizenship are American traditions

Lunar New Year celebrations and birthright citizenship are American traditions | 1990 Institute Vol 5 Issue 2  

Newsletter: https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol5_issue2

Talk: Celebrating Lunar New Year in A2 at U-M Museum of Natural History Planetarium today

Celebrating Lunar New Year with University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

February 8, 12:00 pm, U-M Museum of Natural History Planetarium and Dome Theater, 1105 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Tickets $8 and available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.
https://ii.umich.edu/.../events.../116977-21866364.html

Class: Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within starting today

Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within starting today at WCC

10 Sundays, February 2 – April 6, 2025, 12pm-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Poetry Reading Next Chapter Books, Detroit, January 30

Thanks to Next Chapter Books in Detroit for hosting us for an evening of poetry to celebrate the lunar new year on Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6:30pm. Come join us! with the great Kyunghee Kim, Bryan Thao Worra, Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef and of course the amazing food of Gajiza Dumplins