Michael Woodford & Laura Wernick
Facilitating Institutional Change through Creative Performance: Promoting LGBTQQ Youth Empowerment
Professor Woodford will work in collaboration with Lori Roddy, Callie Mckee and youth from Neutral Zone’s Riot Youth program and Social Work Ph.D. candidate Laura Wernick, to create an action research project that will improve school environments for LGBTQQ youth. The project team will use creative performance to effect LGBTQQ youth empowerment and will document how the performance experience promotes institutional change.
| Name | Title | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Woodford | Assistant Professor of Social Work | Faculty Fellow |
| Laura Wernick | Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Social Work | |
| Riot Youth | Ann Arbor Neutral Zone |