Panel Discussion - Podcasting and Community Storytelling: Uncovering GRPS's History Together (APPRIVED INT100/201) - Events Calendar

Panel Discussion - Podcasting and Community Storytelling: Uncovering GRPS's History Together (APPRIVED INT100/201)

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

How have experiences with the Grand Rapids Public School varied between the 1960s and today? What role does that history play in the efforts of current students, faculty, and staff to create change and improvement in their education? This panel features Dr. Leanne Kang’s work uncovering a compelling portrait of Grand Rapids Public Schools’ history through podcast interviews. Dr. Kang will be joined by three interviewees from GRPS’ past, as well as Betsaida Valdivia, the Urban Core Coalition’s youth organizer and current GRPS students from the Student Association for Leadership and Transformation. This multigenerational panel will discuss the legacy, present and future of GRPS as an urban school district.

Panelists will include:

Dr. Leanne Kang, GVSU faculty in the College of Education and Community Innovation
Jermar Sterling
Dr. Raul Ysasi, GVSU faculty in the College of Education and Community Innovation
Patrick O'Neal Luster
Betsaida Valdivia, youth organizer for the Urban Core Coalition
Current GRPS Students

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Location Information

Hager-Lubbers Exhibition Hall & Loosemore Auditorium

Richard M. DeVos Center - Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus

401 W. Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504

Contact Information

Nora Salas

Director, Kutsche Office of Local History

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 616-331-8099

Ryan Moore

Office Coordinator, Kutsche Office of Local History

Email: [email protected]

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This event was added to the calendar by Ryan Moore (moorer4@eduftp.net) on Friday, February 7, 2025 and was last updated on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.