Event Title
Plenary Session 2: Delta Scholars Student Presentations
Location
Ballroom, Lewis 301
Start Date
18-7-2018 1:20 PM
Description
Delta Scholars is a new program that aims to train a cohort of young leaders to think critically about issues of systemic justice affecting Mississippi and to support them in developing solutions that will produce positive social change in their communities and the state at large. The Delta Scholars—14 undergraduate students from across the state of Mississippi and Harvard College-- have spent the last nine days working on campus at the Mississippi State Honors College in Starkville and then touring the Delta. They have met with academics, community leaders, and non-profit organizers working towards positive social change in the Delta, and they have taken inspiration from these examples to develop ideas for social change projects that they can implement in their own communities. During this workshop, students will present their project proposals and solicit questions, suggestions, and feedback from audience participants.
Moderators: Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center; Rachel Haggard. University of Mississippi. Center for Population Studies
Presenters:
- Alyssa Bass, University of Southern Mississippi
- Rachel Booth, Mississippi State University
- Sarah Comino, University of Alabama
- Mayukh Datta, Mississippi State University
- William Fite, Mississippi State University
- Jonathan Puckett, University of Southern Mississippi
- Megan Swartzfager, University of Mississippi
- Keturah Gadson, Harvard College
- Jordan Jefferson, Jackson State University
- Summer Jefferson, University of Mississippi
- Trevor Ladner, Harvard College
- Madison Seymour, University of Southern Mississippi
- Candice Tetlow, Copiah-Lincoln Community College
- Rebecca Weatherford, Samford University
Relational Format
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
Presenters, Multiple, "Plenary Session 2: Delta Scholars Student Presentations" (2018). Delta Regional Forum. 9.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/dr_forum/2018/schedule/9
Plenary Session 2: Delta Scholars Student Presentations
Ballroom, Lewis 301
Delta Scholars is a new program that aims to train a cohort of young leaders to think critically about issues of systemic justice affecting Mississippi and to support them in developing solutions that will produce positive social change in their communities and the state at large. The Delta Scholars—14 undergraduate students from across the state of Mississippi and Harvard College-- have spent the last nine days working on campus at the Mississippi State Honors College in Starkville and then touring the Delta. They have met with academics, community leaders, and non-profit organizers working towards positive social change in the Delta, and they have taken inspiration from these examples to develop ideas for social change projects that they can implement in their own communities. During this workshop, students will present their project proposals and solicit questions, suggestions, and feedback from audience participants.
Moderators: Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center; Rachel Haggard. University of Mississippi. Center for Population Studies
Presenters:
- Alyssa Bass, University of Southern Mississippi
- Rachel Booth, Mississippi State University
- Sarah Comino, University of Alabama
- Mayukh Datta, Mississippi State University
- William Fite, Mississippi State University
- Jonathan Puckett, University of Southern Mississippi
- Megan Swartzfager, University of Mississippi
- Keturah Gadson, Harvard College
- Jordan Jefferson, Jackson State University
- Summer Jefferson, University of Mississippi
- Trevor Ladner, Harvard College
- Madison Seymour, University of Southern Mississippi
- Candice Tetlow, Copiah-Lincoln Community College
- Rebecca Weatherford, Samford University
