2025 January Live It Fund Students

Shades of Injustice

Shades of Injustice seeks to create a toolkit that targets both patients and physicians, highlighting the ways skin color can affect various skin conditions and impact the quality of care. This toolkit contains infographic posters, an eye-catching educational cube designed to passively spread awareness to patients, and a website designed to highlight patient experiences and connect them to dermatology resources. An integral part of Shades of Injustice’s mission is to increase patient literacy and facilitate meaningful conversation between patient and physician.

Clean Water For All: Mpongwe Borehole Initiative

The Mpongwe Borehole Project aims to provide sustainable access to clean water for the rural community of Mpongwe, Zambia. Utilizing solar-powered pumps and guided by local leadership, the initiative will address persistent water challenges while fostering community engagement and long-term impact. This project reflects a commitment to improving public health, reducing water scarcity, and empowering local resources.

Hablando por México

The Economic Development program ‘Hablando por México’ is a beacon of hope, aiming to promote and empower the Mazahua community from Rosa del Calvario at the Municipality of San Felipe del Progreso, in Mexico. Through professional and social preparation workshops in Spanish and Mazahua about capital management, business entrepreneurship, and cultural development. The program equips the Mazahua community with tools to break free from historical barriers of marginalization on educational gaps, networking opportunities, and access to funding information that perpetuated economic, social, and political inequality between indigenous communities and non-indigenous communities.

Outdoors Unlocked: A Mac student’s guide to accessible adventure

Over J-Term we will create a zine centered around national parks and outdoor recreation in the U.S. We will discuss resources and tips for Mac students, and explore the history of the parks we visit. Our goal is to provide practical and historical information through storytelling and a creative format to enable and empower students surrounding outdoor recreation.

ProPath

ProPath is a mentorship program that connects underserved high school and college students in China with experienced mentors and valuable resources, helping to bridge the gap between their education and meaningful career opportunities.

School for Change

“School for Change” is a community-driven initiative aimed at renovating the Gra Dali Public Primary School in the Doka village, Ivory Coast, to become a state-certified exam center and a hub for agroecology, improving both education access and food security for the village and nearby localities.

Starlight Messages: 星光信语

My J-term project, Starlight Messages: 星光信语, creates a bridge between children with autism at Qing Cong Quan in Shanghai and Chinese-learning students from Macalester’s Asian Studies Department. By exchanging heartfelt letters, this project highlights the beauty of unique perspectives and builds meaningful cross-cultural connections

The International Climate Resilience Hub

The Climate Resilience Hub is a scalable and redistributable, capacity-building curriculum aimed to help at-risk-youth in climatically vulnerable states, with a focus on southern East Africa to accelerate the spread of climate-based knowledge resources to low-income youth.

Building Bridges: The Dello Mena Diaspora Network

The Dello Mena Diaspora Network is an initiative designed to connect the Dello Mena diaspora in the U.K., Germany and around the worldwide their hometown in Ethiopia. This project focuses on cultivating a strong, collaborative network that unites the skills, resources, and passion of diaspora members to support transformative, community-driven initiatives in Dello Mena. By fostering dialogue and partnerships between diaspora leaders, local officials, and global organizations, the network aims to create sustainable solutions for educational and infrastructural challenges while strengthening ties within the global Dello Mena community.