The Community Camera: A photographic survey

 

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The Community Camera showcases programs that are the result of two-way partnerships between ASU and the community. These partnerships can consist of ASU programs that place student-interns in local non-profit organizations, or ASU professors whose research comes from and returns back to the community.  Or they can be something else all together. New manifestations of socially embedded partnerships crop up every day in the Valley of the Sun.

Community Camera photographer Eliza Gregory travels around the Valley (and occasionally the state) meeting the people who make these partnerships happen. On a given day she might drive out to a neighborhood in the heart of Phoenix where schools are partnering with ASU programs to shape the way teachers get certified. Or she might wander around the ASU Tempe campus with a group of kids who have been participating in a science program led by graduate students. Or she might have a meeting with a community organization in Guadalupe where nursing and pre-med students volunteer and do research. In the following photo essay, Eliza tells us a little bit about her travels.

To learn more about how ASU is engaged with the community, please visit ASU in the Community’s Program Database which connects you to a wide variety of specific ASU outreach efforts.