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IGPA Faculty Coffee – Building the Next Generation of Engaged Researchers: Utilizing Youth Participatory Action Research to Engage Teens in Community Policy Change
April 2, 2024 from 9 – 10am CT
The Institute of Government & Public Affairs invites you to our next faculty coffee on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 from 9 – 10 am CT, in Urbana and on Zoom. For those who join in person, there will be coffee and breakfast items!
IGPA will be hosting Assistant Professor Amy Leman to speak about her IGPA Research Scholar Initiative: Building the Next Generation of Engaged Researchers: Utilizing Youth Participatory Action Research to Engage Teens in Community Policy Change.
Amy Leman holds a Research Scholar Initiative at IGPA, is a Collaborating Scholar on IGPA’s Education, Learning, Child and Family Well-Being Working Group, and is an Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies in the College of ACES at UIUC.
Dr. Leman is a proponent of youth voice and youth choice. Her teaching and research focus on evaluating effective strategies to teach and learn in both classrooms and out-of-school time programs in community settings. Her work is informed by her background as a 4-H youth development educator and work in positive youth development practices. In 2020, she was awarded the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities’ Academic Programs Section Innovative Teaching Award.
This is a hybrid event offered on Zoom and at IGPA’s Urbana Office at 1007 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801. A calendar invitation will be sent after registration.
To register for the event, please visit the registration link
