Kristie Joseph is a summer intern at the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center. She is a rising senior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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have been interning at the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center for a few
weeks. Interning at CHCMC has been a positive experience. Sadasia, my
co-intern, and I are learning a lot of material and we’re both grateful for the
opportunity. A few weeks ago, we were given a project called Speak Your Peace.
Speak Your Peace is a tool that gives people the opportunity to respond to gun
violence in their neighborhood. Sadasia and I have visited 25 residents that
live in the Crown Heights neighborhood. We’ve interviewed children and adults,
and everyone had something different to say, but they all spoke on how their
community could be improved. Two people that had the biggest impact on us were
a man named Robert and a 12 year old boy named Jordan. They were completely
honest, assertive, and kind. Everyone from the children to the adults had a
great impact on us. Overall, this experience is very life-changing and
informative, and Sadasia and I are so glad to have worked on this project.
Some pictures from our project:
“All we want is for everyone to cooperate and come together as a whole
community.”
“If I could change one thing in my community, I would want to stop those who
kill other people’s loved ones.”
“People have been interacting better, but the violence is surreal and
needs to stop.”
“If I could change one thing in my community it would be the amount of
guns that are in the streets.”
The rise in gun violence and glorification of guns is increasing at an alarming rate. This is a poetry short film addressing the gun violence in Southside Chicago and Brooklyn, NY the short film is an open letter addressed to 14 year old up and coming Southside Chicago Rapper Lil' Mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urVRaQlO420
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