The different campus work study positions I have had gave me many opportunities to teach others what I had learned about the digital humanities. This has allowed me to have a deeper understanding of the skills I am building and to share the possibilities of digital humanities with others.
In my position as a SCOPE program intern for the history department, I worked with a group of ten middle school students to create a booklet about activism in Northfield since the 1970s. I taught the students how to conduct oral history interviews and the best practices for metadata in digital archives.
As a Food & Environmental Justice Fellow in the Center for Community and Civic Engagement, I was able take what I had learned about podcast design and make a guide for Anchor, a website that can edit and publish podcasts. This guide has been shared with different groups at Carleton and within the Northfield community. Most recently, I consulted with a group of high school students about RAVE, a podcast project aiming to reduce underage vaping and e-cigarette use.
Another project I have been a part of at the CCCE was the online Lighten Up sale. Each year, students donate about 30 tons of used items to the sale. During the first couple years of the pandemic, we were unable to host a sale in person and a group of students worked to design a website where we could post and sell items. The sale raised $12,000 for three local community partner organizations.
