Category: Research
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How Digital Solutions Enhance Voting Security in New Orleans
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Maria, a displaced New Orleans mother, uses her smartphone to securely vote through advanced homomorphic encryption, demonstrating how technology can connect citizens despite adversity. The Grand Marshal Project aims to enhance secure voting and community engagement while addressing accessibility for marginalized populations, especially during…
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Lesson Plan: Eco-Colonialism and The Pointe au Chien Indigenous People of Louisiana.
This lesson plan explores the impacts of eco-colonialism on the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribal Community, highlighting their experiences with environmental degradation and collective trauma. It emphasizes the significance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and cultural resilience in overcoming these challenges.
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Lake Chad Basin Human Ecology: Water Stories, UNDP Regional Stabilization Facility, and Sustainable Generosity
Introduction “First of all, we were carried away by the name of Islam, we were told to go and do jihad after that, we came to discover that it was a deceitful way of introducing us into another part of the world. Poverty, lack of money is what induces us…
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Digital Education and Activism
For those of you who know me, the idea of mixing technology with doing good work has always given me that right amount of motivation to make some heavy lifts. When the Brewster Whitecaps came to me with a 30-page booklet that was their intake paperwork system which they snail…
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Old Cape Cod: Housing Crisis Resilience Strategies
Housing Crisis Strategies in the European Old World as Resilience Strategies in Post-Covid Historical American Tourist Destinations Introduction Looking at cultural strategies that have historically been the bedrock of resiliency in ancient cities, can community developers use modern strategies in Old World cities to inform New World American communities through…
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Colorado River: A Transnational Analysis of Riparian Rights in the age of Drought
An analysis of riparian rights, transnational water treaties, and the effect and future of the river as a megadrought reaches it’s 23 year.
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LIHEAP: 40 years of Implementation
Introduction “When you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.” (Dingell, 2010) Congressman John Dingell presided…
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Looking Up, Looking Down: Homelessness
Small town Corvallis is home to over 800 housing insecure residents, some of whom support themselves through panhandling around the downtown post office. There are countless perspectives on the ‘problem’ of homelessness, but often one viewpoint is left out and that is how the homeless view the world through their…
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Culture in Pornography: We See What We Want
What was once considered the most egalitarian act a person could participate in, was removed from democratized consumption and relegated to only a special few who had both the wealth and standing. How has our relationship with this form of communication come full circle in just over 200 years, from…
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They Poisoned our Lands and then They Poisoned our Souls:
It is this system which communities like Chester, The Zuni Nation, and Quechan Nation have attempted to employ their coping mechanism of human agency to prevent further harm to their people and land. In their attempts to stand with equal footing among those who want to utilize their local resources,…