June | 2018 | F.M. Kirby Experiential Learning Stipend Recipient Blogs

Week 3 at Hangar

Week 3 has consisted of design and production meetings. We have officially opened our first show, Fortune. On the second night of performances the four design apprentices, myself included, designed a Cabaret. The theme was “Artist’s Experience” so the design was a small Parisian cafe feeling that emphasized the individuality of the actors performing. I…

Week #3 in the ED

I am working for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the School of Medicine in Emergency Medicine Research. Our two offices are in the hospital, as well as our lab where I process blood. I work mainly with 4 different women on a day-to-day basis. Their names are Rachel, Lauren, Maggie, and Stephanie. They are…

Week three (What an amazing moment and view!)

The Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy recently had its 50th anniversary in 2017. The organization, previously known as Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, was created in 1967 as part of the efforts to end poverty. The organization has the mission of providing legal services to members of society who do not have the resources to…

A Coffee Break-DeacLink

This week was special because I got to meet one of my bosses in person. In case you are not aware, I am required to work from home. I never got to meet any of my bosses in person because we all live in different states. This week I traveled to Atlanta, GA to visit…

Week 3 with CrossRoads (blog 4)

CrossRoads was started by a small group of 15 women who advocated for a woman over 40 years ago who was raped by a police officer in Burlington, this group was then called the Rape Crisis Alliance of Alamance County. The woman who had been sexually assaulted went to these women who she knew would…

Week Two at Charlotte City Council

So far, Councilwoman Ajmera has put me in charge of her social media outreach as well as tracking what is being said about her in the media. I attend many different types of events in the city and take photos and videos of the councilwoman in action. I am also tasked with writing an op-ed…

Week 5

And we’re back after another week! Unfortunately, this week was plagued with me being sick with a pretty nasty head cold, so all of my projects went on hold. Otherwise, things around here are kind of set up to be different on a day to day basis, as I only really have one over-arching project…

A Place of Love 6.17.18- Payton Calvert

Good Shepherd’s Fold is a secluded campus in the Buundo Village of Uganda, neighboring several villages. It is home to 65 children and employs a number of Ugandan as well as Western individuals and families. There is a Ugandan primary school that performs above the neighboring school average and a tailoring school that conducts sewing…

A Week Full of Firsts 6.10.18- Payton Calvert

It has been a week since I last blogged and was preparing to travel to Uganda to begin my internship. Since then I have left the country for the first time, met the four other interns working here this summer, met the staff of Good Shepherd’s Fold, played with some of the children at the…

A Summer of Possibilities 6.3.18- Payton Calvert

I am Payton Calvert, a rising Junior from Cramerton, North Carolina. I am a Sociology major with education and dance minors. Last summer I was able to intern at Hope 4 Gaston and the Dream Center of Gaston County through the assistance of the Kirby Grant. Working with local nonprofit organizations, specifically with children, last…