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WE MAKE CULTURAL PRODUCTS that take many forms. The nature of the problem determines the form and solution method. As artists, we are not compelled to reinvent the problem so it meets “our mission statement” or “strategic plan.” This has tremendous benefits. It means our focus remains on the problem such as it is, we can work deliberately, and we can achieve results. These in turn generate new areas of interest or leverage which we use to advance other projects. Everything’s connected.

“The central lesson of anthropology... is the idea that the world... does not exist in some absolute sense but is just a model of reality... Other people (of different cultures at different technological levels) aren’t failed attempts at being us. By definition they are unique answers to a fundamental question, What does it mean to be human and alive?”
 “…We were teaching classes on diabetes. So   here, she’s listening to all of this advice that becomes empty, if you have a community that is designed to be sick. … It is that contradiction that raises your awareness, to a point in which Irma said, ‘I don't want to take this anymore — there has to be a way.’”

  Regional Development  Piedmont Triad Partnership  >  Serious Game Group  > STSB serious game
Center for Design Innovation > DATS 2010  >  DATS Mashup  > World Food in the Triad
   NEW PIEDMONT  > Census 2010 > Greensboro is brown
Montagnard Dega Association  >  ESOL > Employment specialist  > Refugee skill sets 
  ETHNIC BUSINESS  Summit Avenue development > Nie’s American Oriental Market > Dran Restaurant 
  TECH  High Point University > Digital Game Protoyping > Game Theory and Design > Game Development > Student Game Portfolios
  Food & Ag  Goat Lady > Community gardens > Montagnard agriculture > Coop Ext > Farmers Market 
      .SHOPPING + FOOD HABITS   SE Asian foods and plants  >  Ethnic stores survey  >  Recipes  >  Food documentation 
    .Health Disparities  Montagnard Women’s Community Health Team   >  Health + Research Training Class
Reading Connections tutor   >  UNCG Health Literacy   >  Reading Connections Health Literacy supervisor
 NUTRITION  Food Insecurity Phase 1 > CHW instructional material > Food Insecurity Phase 2
Blood pressure   >  Health interviews  >  Disaster preparedness  >  CNNC  >  AHEC Meeting   >  Montagnard Health Research Network
 Montagnard MDs  >  Research interviews   >  Medical English Class
 PUBLIC ED  16+ years college experience >  Advising refugee high school students   >  HS Science and Health Club
Montagnard HS seniors as translators > First Montagnard kid at Guilford
Montagnard health professionals  >   Montagnard Health Professionals Association
  EMPOWERMENT  Family life > Orange Card, Medicaid > NCAT food harvests > BSN Grant > Women’s Learning Group
 Culture  Role of refugee women  >  Montagnard backstop weaving  >  Glenwood   >  Green Hill Center    >  Public demonstrations
 STORIES  Dega Weatherspoon  >  Glenwood  > Arts, Languages >  UNCSA DMA-DEGA  >  Sustainability for Everyone 
  Community Building  FaithAction board member  >  Council of Cultures 
 CONFLICT RESOLUTION    CFGG Grant  >  United Dashain  >  Soccer tournament   >  Triad International Soccer League 
  APPROPRIATE TECH  SCSJ Grant  >  Montagnard Census 2010 project > Work with refugee leaders > Montagnard church map

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