Social Change leadership program (RAPP)

The RAPP program is designed to help students realistically affect productive social change. This program spanned over two-semester and included ten required sessions. Throughout the program, we engaged in meaningful conversations within our cohort on topics ranging from our leadership styles, intersecting identities among race, religion, and sexuality, confronting our biases, and citizenship. In the spring semester, we worked on an impactful and insightful group project overseeing the process from start to finish with complete freedom. My group and I chose to revolve our project around homelessness and partnered with the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. We conducted a seminar at UC to increase students' knowledge of resources available for the Clifton homeless community, give visibility to the Coalition's petition in progress and collect donation items for the community. 

This experience has impacted me tremendously because it was an incredible opportunity to collaborate with peers from different walks of life. Our cohort was a diverse group of individuals from differing educational backgrounds with varying previous social justice experiences. The only prerequisite was entering the room with an open heart and mind. This experience was so unique because it was a safe and nurturing environment oriented towards growth. I am really grateful to have been in this experience in my college experience because it is unlikely to have such a fostering space without repercussions in real life. 

The picture attached above is the logic model formulated at the conception of our project. I chose this assignment to be showcased because it was an effective tool in our program planning, management, evaluation, and reporting.