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Melissa Crum Shares Linden Documentary

August 11, 2015

Melissa Crum Shares Linden Documentary

Melissa Crum

Alumna Melissa Crum, PhD, a 2013-2014 Columbus-Athens Schweitzer Fellow, created a neighborhood profile and documentary film about the South Linden area, just east of Ohio State. Crum inspired the middle school and high school students of the Linden McKinley STEM Academy to research on the environmental challenges their community faces and used that research as the focal point of the documentary.

“The goal is to help them learn some critical thinking skills. I hope it brings awareness to young people that they have the ability to create change — even when people tell them they can’t,” said Crum. “They are African-American kids in a low-income neighborhood, in an area that gets bad press all the time. What happens when they take the initiative to create change and find they are capable of doing just that?”

Watch Crum’s documentary below and read more about her project here.

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