Today鈥檚 show looks at a coalition to expand voting rights to immigrant residents in 麻豆影院 County, a project developed through the Puksta Scholars program at CU 麻豆影院. The coalition is leading the movement to generate dialogues surrounding our country鈥檚 history of voting rights. Through their outreach, they will built the coalition even further to recruit volunteers for a ballot initiative in 2020, sustain our relationship with city council, and run focus groups within communities most impacted by this issue. The coalition strongly believes that every person deserves representation and the ability to make decisions on where they live. the show is hosted by Soraya Latiff who works for the Center for Community Based Research and Learning at CU 麻豆影院. In her role at CU she works in storytelling for the Center and also worked as Project Manager for Puksta Scholars and had the pleasure of working closely with one of this episode鈥檚 guest, Emma Piller.

Emma Piller who grew up in Lafayette, Colorado and just graduated from CU 麻豆影院 this May with a degree in English and a minor in Spanish and Leadership. Immigrant rights has always been a passion of hers and she aspires to become an immigration attorney. In her time at CU she was a part of the Puksta Foundation Scholarship that promoted civic engagement through scholarships. Her Puksta project explored the immigrant experience in 麻豆影院 County and in her third year at CU, Emma and seven of her peers joined together to expand voting rights to residents without full citizenship. In 2017, Emma and the team created a coalition to work in the 麻豆影院 community with the intention of generating dialogue on what it means to practice citizenship. Gabo Ortiz-Pe帽a graduated from CU 麻豆影院 with his masters in Astrophysics and has been involved with the coalition since December 2017. He was at the INVST kick-off event where they had some great conversations around voting rights, and from there he ended up joining the coalition. He has been mostly involved in organizational and planning work, but also did a bit of outreach last summer.

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AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of , the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. 

You can also access each show from this webpage, as well as listen to occasional AMPLIFY Bonus Content, where we continue the conversation beyond what we were able to fit into our time on the air.

Ways to listen to AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 9am
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage")

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This month, AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet speaks with guests Nitin Beri and Heidi Harris, both undergraduate students at CU 麻豆影院 and leaders in the Swap program.

Swap is a student-run, grassroots initiative at CU 麻豆影院 that builds bridges of support and solidarity between Swap volunteers, campus employees, and international students in the 麻豆影院 community.

Swap brings together historically and systematically divided campus sectors 鈥� such as CU 麻豆影院 students and university janitorial and other staff - to share a common learning and cultural experience. Swap also provides conversation partners to CU International English Center (IEC) students, with the goal of helping provide our international friends with the tools to be productive and self-sufficient members of the 麻豆影院 community. Swap is a proud program of CU Engage.

Thanks so much for listening!

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AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of , the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. 

You can also access each show from this webpage, as well as listen to occasional AMPLIFY Bonus Content, where we continue the conversation beyond what we were able to fit into our time on the air.

Ways to listen to AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 9am
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage" - thanks in advance for rating us with five stars and leaving us positive reviews!)

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This month, AMPLIFY host Roudy Hildreth speaks with guests Carmen Mabee and Karina Adabe, both of whom are current students participating in CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Public Achievement Program as TA鈥檚, or Teaching Assistants.

At CU 麻豆影院, undergraduate students serve as Public Achievement, or 鈥淧A鈥� coaches alongside K-12 students in 麻豆影院 and Lafayette. Together, students participate in a year-long cycle of inquiry and action around school and community based social justice issues. All participants gain insight on community leadership, the foundations of social change, and the power of relationships.

Public Achievement challenges traditional notions of citizen participation by placing young people in the center of their civic environment.  Public Achievement was developed in 1990 by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota (now at Augsburg College).  The founder of Public Achievement, Harry Boyte, worked for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the Civil Rights Movement.  This experience led to the creation of Public Achievement; the impact of young people shaping society through organizing and civic participation is a legacy we continue in our work with PA.  

麻豆影院鈥檚 Public Achievement program is housed within CU Engage.  CU Engage is CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 center for community-based learning and research in the School of Education.  PA provides CU 麻豆影院 undergraduates with a meaningful opportunity of applied learning that explores education as a tool for democracy and social change.  

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AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of , the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. 

You can also access each show from this webpage, as well as listen to occasional AMPLIFY Bonus Content, where we continue the conversation beyond what we were able to fit into our time on the air.

Ways to listen to AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 9am
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage")

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On the February 27 edition of AMPLIFY, host Soraya Latiff speaks with Multicultural Leadership Scholars Director Krishna Pattisapu.

For anyone interested in learning more about the Multicultural Leadership Scholars, the application for Fall 2019 is open now and applications are being accepted through April 1st, 2019.

With Multicultural Leadership Scholars, you can:

Join a community of students who care about social justice
Earn a minor in Leadership Studies
Gain access to professional development, mentoring, and academic enrichment opportunities
Receive annual financial support

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On the January 23 episode, AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet speaks with three of CU Engage's colleagues from Denver Public Schools to discuss the exciting expansion of their action civics program, known as the Student Voice and Leadership Program, or SVL program. The SVL program nurtures the whole child and supports youth-and-adult partnerships to leverage community assets and create change. The SVL program, as we鈥檒l hear on today鈥檚 show, has been life changing for many student leaders in the Denver Public School system. When students discover their core strengths and apply them in real-world experiences through the Student Voice and Leadership Program, school cultures are transformed and young people gain new skills in advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement.

Today's guests are Solicia Lopez, Director of Student Voice and Leadership (SVL) for the Denver Public School District; Ananas Mustafa, Coordinator of the Student Board of Education School Leadership Program Model for Denver Public Schools; and Esperanza Garcia, a high school senior at South High School in Denver and a student leader in the Young African American Latinx Leaders Program, aka the (YAALL) program.

CU 麻豆影院 and two other partner universities 鈥� UC Denver and Rowan University 鈥� have collaborated with leaders from Denver Public Schools to recently receive a 1.4 million dollar grant from the Hewlett Foundation and Jobs for the Future to advance, expand and study the Student Leadership Program in Denver. On today's show, guests discuss the plans to expand the SVL program in Denver, and what role university graduate students and faculty from CU 麻豆影院, UC Denver and Rowan University will play in helping this action civics work move forward.

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To learn more about the university-community collaboration to support the SVL program, read the article here. We鈥檇 also like to give a special shout out to our university principal investigators on this collaborative project, including Shelley Zion from Rowan University, Carlos Hipolito-Delgado from UC Denver, and Ben Kirshner who is the Facutly Director at CU Engage at CU 麻豆影院.

AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of CU Engage, the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. 

You can also access each show from this webpage, as well as listen to occasional AMPLIFY Bonus Content, where we continue the conversation beyond what we were able to fit into our time on the air.

Ways to listen to AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 9am
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage")

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On the December 26th Edition of AMPLIFY, CU Engage Communications Coordinator and AMPLIFY co-host Soraya Latiff is joined in the KGNU studio by CU Engage's Americorps volunteer staff. Together, they discuss their experiences as women of color in the workplace and the complexities of doing service work post-graduation. All four women are recent CU 麻豆影院 alumnae.

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AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of CU Engage, the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU 88.5 FM every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. 

You can also access each show from this webpage, as well as listen to occasional AMPLIFY Bonus Content, where we continue the conversation beyond what we were able to fit into our time on the air.

Ways to listen to AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 9am
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage")

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On the November 28th edition of AMPLIFY, host Jennifer Ciplet and her guests discuss an exciting collaboration between the non-profit community organization  which works with people with disabilities, and the 麻豆影院 College of Engineering and Applied Science. Today's guests include Professor Melinda Piket-May, CU 麻豆影院 engineering student Sarah DaFoe, and Director of Public Relations at Imagine!, Fred Hobbs.

Through this university-community partnership, CU 麻豆影院 engineering students develop assistive technology that supports people living with developmental, cognitive and physical challenges. To see examples of the assistive technology CU 麻豆影院 engineering students have created with Imagine clients, .

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CU Engage was excited to learn about this program when Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Professor Piket-May, applied for and joined the CU Engage Faculty Fellows program. Piket-May was a member of the 2017-18 cohort of CU Engage Faculty Fellows, which included CU 麻豆影院 faculty doing innovative, community-based teaching and research from across campus and a wide range of academic departments. Professor Piket-May works with her CU 麻豆影院 undergraduate students to integrate engineering theory with real life engineering design problems, especially engineering challenges that could assist people living with disabilities.

AMPLIFY: Stories of University-Community Collaborations is a production of CU Engage, the Center for Community-Based Learning and Research at CU 麻豆影院, in partnership with independent community radio . The show aims to amplify the voices of students and community partners who are working together to generate new knowledge and actions to address  public challenges.

You can listen to AMPLIFY live on KGNU every fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am. www.colorado.edu/cuengage/AMPLIFY

The Faculty Fellows in Community-Based Learning program of CU Engage provides resources and support for faculty to design a new course or modify an existing course to include a community-based learning component. The aim of the Faculty Fellows Program is to expand, deepen, and institutionalize community-based learning at CU 麻豆影院.

The RFP for the 2019-2020 academic year is open! For more information visit the Faculty Fellows page.

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Tune into @KGNU next Weds morning, 10/24 at 9am to hear CU 麻豆影院 Public Achievement director Charla Agnoletti, Centaurus H.S. senior Jessica Valle and CU 麻豆影院 student Cam Perdido discuss youth-to-youth leadership development work happening at middle school, high school and college levels.

Joining AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet on October's show are guests Charla Agnoletti, Public Achievement Director at CU 麻豆影院; Jessica Valle, a Centaurus high school senior who is active in the AVID program, and Cam Perdido, a CU 麻豆影院 third year student who is working as the site lead for Casey Middle School.

At CU 麻豆影院, undergraduates serve as PA coaches alongside K-12 students in 麻豆影院 and Lafayette. Together college, high school and middle school youth research and develop plans to address social injustices that exist in their everyday communities. Public achievement is youth-led civic engagement that promotes student voice and transformative change for individuals, schools and communities.

Tune in to  88.5 FM at 9am on Wendesday, September 26 to hear the show air. AMPLIFY always airs on KGNU at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month.

Following the radio airing of the show, this episode of AMPLIFY will be available here on our website, via our , or anywhere you listen to your podcasts (just search CU Engage Amplify).

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The September 26 episode of AMPLIFY features the interesting partnership work happening between , Denver鈥檚 frontline anti-hunger organization, and CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 program INVST Community Studies, an undergraduate leadership training program for students who are passionate about social and environmental justice.

Joining AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet on the September 26 show were guests Sabrina Sideris, Program Director for INVST, and Helen Katich, Programs Manager for Metro Caring. Together, we had a rich discussion about the university-community partnership work that INVST and Metro Caring are doing together to deepen Metro Caring's work toward equity and inclusion within their organization. 

Tune in to 88.5 FM at 9am on Wendesday, September 26 to hear the show air. AMPLIFY always airs on KGNU at 9am on the fourth Wednesday of every month.

Following the radio airing of the show, this episode of AMPLIFY will be available here on our website, via our , or anywhere you listen to your podcasts (just search CU Engage Amplify).

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"What this shows me is that everyone in the Metro Caring community is dedicated to seeing that their individual actions... matter. But also [what matters to the Metro Caring community is] everyone's overall commitment to understanding that food insecurity with Denver families is just part of a much larger systemic injustice that relates to long term imbalance, inequity and injustice. And we all have a part in combatting all of those things." 
--Sabrina Sideris, INVST Program Director

"Most of the interactions that [Metro Caring has] with all of our community members are provided by volunteers. So it's essential that we're doing these workshops. And it's really provided this groundwork and foundational understanding that we're all able to work from. It's been a phenomenal way of getting everyone on the same page going towards this goal of building equity." 
--Helen Katich, Programs Manager at Metro Caring

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AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet in the KGNU studio, speaking with Aquetza Program participants Emely Pech-Cruz and Galilea Landa-Posas, along with CU 麻豆影院 student and Aquetza instructor Diana Bustamante-Aguilar.

Aquetza - which means "hold your chin up" in the Mesoamerican Nahuatl language - was founded 6 years ago by a group of CU 麻豆影院 undergraduate students. Today, Aquetza provides a free, 10-day summer residential program on the Campus of CU 麻豆影院 for participating high school students from across Colorado who have strong ties to Chicano/Latino communities. This summer, in July 2018, the program provided 42 Colorado youth participants with an interactive, academic enrichment experience focused on examining the history, literature, health science, and relevant social and political issues surrounding Chicano/Latino communities.

Aquetza is rooted in a philosophy of education that sees the youth participants as holders and producers of new and valuable knowledge, and the program is designed with this at its core. Aquetza provides its high school participants with a chance to develop new skills and grow and share their knowledge as they become leaders in their communities.

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You can also listen to a previous episode of AMPLIFY about the Aquetza program .

Ways to listen to the August 22 Edition of AMPLIFY:

• tune into  at 9am on Wednesday, August 22
• listen online anytime after the show airs via our CU Engage 
• subscribe to AMPLIFY on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts (search "Amplify CU Engage")

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