Rina Risper speaks with Gwen Botting, Executive Director of Opportunities Unlimited for the Blind. They discuss the needs for the non-profit, Opportunities for the Blind, especially during the holidays. Ms. Botting encourages listeners to move beyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday, to Giving Tuesday - and give to the non-profit of your choice.
Rina speaks with Gwen Botting, Executive Director of Opportunities Unlimited for the Blind. The mission of Opportunities Unlimited for the Blind is to help build life skills, self-confidence and independence for children and young adults who are blind or have low vision. They discuss the need for Board Members for the organization and how to get involved.
Rina speaks with Emily Peden, Art Program Director for Peckham's Art From the Heart Program. They discuss the overall goal of Peckham and their Art From the Heart Program, of helping individuals meet their full potentials.
Rina speaks with Hope Lovell, Administrator at Grand Mere's Adult Day Health Club, and Lisa LaFrancem, Admission and Marketing Director at Mere's Adult Day Health Club, based in Lansing, Michigan. They discuss the unique opportunities provided by the health club to adults of all ages with life changing conditions.
Rina Risper speaks with Anita Lindsay, Vice President of Communications for the Junior League of Lansing. They discuss what the non-profit provides to the community through the promotion of volunteerism and overall community development and prosperity.
Joining Rina Risper today is Laura Apol, Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches children's literature and poetry. In addition to numerous professional publications, she is the author of three collections of her own poems: Falling into Grace, Crossing the Ladder of Sun (winner of the Oklahoma Book Award), and Requiem, Rwanda, her newest collection, which is drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
Joining Rina today is Amanda Morgan, a poet and collector of thoughts. Amanda is a poet who writes about her daily commutes on public transportation. She wrote a collaborative poem written by her and a poet friend, Rethabile Masilo, called Avalanche. Though he lives in Paris, France, he found a connection as a fellow user of public transportation.
April 19th through the 25th is National Crime Victims Rights Week. Joanne Lose, the mother of Jim Bowerman, stay down to speak to Rina about her son. He is from East Lansing, MI and was murdered in North Miami.
April 19th through the 25th is National Crime Victims Rights Week. Rina sat down with Shirley Mitchner, the mother of Brandon Mitchner who was found deceased in the Grand River. She would like Michigan to have a Duty to Act law.
April 19th through the 25th is National Crime Victims Rights Week. Shawn Pam, sister of Michael "Smack" Jimenez, was murdered by his brother. Rina sat down with Shawn Pam to hear this tragedic story and it's impact on the family.
