David McCarthy
I'm a community organizer, educator, musician, and writer. I teach at Michigan State University at the Residential College in Arts and Humanities, which we call RCAH (pronounced AR-CAH). RCAH is a residential college, which means that students live together in a common dorm. It encourages interdisciplinarity, meaning that students can explore all different forms of art-making and human expression, and they can learn about many different ways of researching human activity. And it emphasizes civic engagement, which in practice means that our students are constantly doing work with various community partners. One thing I do these days is organize arts programming in Lansing's juvenile detention facility. |