Events
Panel Discussion - Podcasting and Community Storytelling: Uncovering GRPS's History Together
Date and Time
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
RSVP
You can RSVP for this event until March 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Hager-Lubbers Exhibition Hall & Loosemore Auditorium
Richard M. DeVos Center - Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
401 W. Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Description
How have experiences with the Grand Rapids Public School varied between the 1960s and today? What role does that history play in the efforts of current students, faculty, and staff to create change and improvement in their education? This panel features Dr. Leanne Kang’s work uncovering a compelling portrait of Grand Rapids Public Schools’ history through podcast interviews. Dr. Kang will be joined by three interviewees from GRPS’ past, as well as Betsaida Valdivia, the Urban Core Collectives' youth organizer and current GRPS students from the Student Association for Leadership and Transformation. This multigenerational panel will discuss the legacy, present and future of GRPS as an urban school district.
Panelists will include:
- Dr. Leanne Kang
- Jermar Sterling
- Dr. Raul Ysasi
- Patrick O'Neal Luster
- Betsaida Valdivia
- Current GRPS Students
This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as academic, brooks, community, education, grps, history, kutsche, and local.
Contact
Nora Salas
Director, Kutsche Office of Local History
Email: salasn@gvsu.edu
Phone: 616-331-8099
Ryan Moore
Office Coordinator, Kutsche Office of Local History
Email: moorer4@gvsu.edu