Community Education for Economic and Social Justice: With Special Consideration of Covid-19 Impacts, Future of Work Trends, and Leadership Development for Systems Change

The research proposed for this project will support community education efforts of the iMOVe Arts Association to support the re-integration of racialized and marginalized people who have been incarceration into community, help youth at risk avoid incarceration, and development of leadership skills to enable systems change to reduce racism, over-representation of racialized people in incarceration, and inter-generational poverty while also considering the impacts of Covid-19, trends in future of work, and how to create more inclusive community-based economic development. The iMOVe (In My Own Voice) Arts Association has been doing work related to these topics for many years but has not had the capacity to document what they have been doing and learning or develop a more formal curriculum that could then be used to teach others about iMOVe’s approach to this work, diversify revenue for the organization, enhance its effectiveness, and enhance its ability to do this work long-term.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Corbett

Student:

Partner:

iMOVe

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Education; Information and cultural industries

University:

Acadia University

Program: