This morning, the MTP staff (through mentor Fauzia Musa) called an Uber to transport Natelegé Whaley, Syreeta Herbert, and me from the Trumbull and Porter Hotel to Civilla, a Detroit-based center dedicated to social innovation. Located within Techone, the structure housing TechTown (a hub for Detroit’s business innovations), Civilla was mostly an open room with cubicle-lined walls. Near the front of the office, the MTP staff had arranged rows of fold-up chairs in which we sat and listened to three lecturers as we ate pastries for breakfast.
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I woke up this morning after enjoying a fantastic night’s sleep. While the rest of the group walked to Stone Creek Coffee for pastries and then conversed with the Mayor of Milwaukee at the Global Water Center, I ate a delicious breakfast at the hotel and took an Uber to the Urban Ecology Center (UEC) and my only meeting of the day.
We awoke this morning as the train continued its journey through Nebraska. Since we had an hour of free time immediately following breakfast, most of us slept in—a rare treat on this expedition. After eating a quick meal, we gathered in the bubble car to hear our first guest speaker of the day, Danielle Cohn.
While the other participants ate breakfast and listened to speakers at The Commons on Champa this morning, I grabbed food on the train and took an Uber to Thorne Nature Experience, the location of my first meeting today. During the drive to Boulder, I watched the beautiful scenery filled with grassy fields and lakes. Thorne Nature Experience’s building contained a lab with tanks of reptiles and amphibians, and a classroom filled with specimens from a wide variety of natural sciences, including paleontology, ornithology, entomology, and geology. The organization’s backyard was a gorgeous marsh with tall grasses and wildflowers set against a background of Rocky Mountain peaks piercing the sky. Had I grown up in Denver, I would have loved attending summer camp there!
I woke up this morning as the train continued its voyage through Utah. The scenery was so beautiful that the staff delayed scheduled programming. After breakfast, we finished the peer-to-peer resource sharing session and went downstairs for lunch, followed by a Courageous Conversations Workshop led by Randi Gloss, an MTP alumna from last year’s journey.
We awoke this morning at Emeryville Amtrak Station, as the train embarked on its two-day journey to Denver. After breakfast, we had a brief discussion about each of our activities yesterday, including any progress we made with our projects, before we heard our next guest speaker, Ike Theodore Umunnah.
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