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Volume 6 • Number 1 • Spring 2023
Civic Leadership
Hear about Illinois State University faculty/staff who are living the value of civic engagement through their leadership in community organizations. Changing the lives of others while also changing themselves.
Q&A with Redbird alum Tyler Clark
Tyler Clark ’09 has been trying to impact communities and people’s lives through public service and affairs since he was a student at Illinois State University.
Campus hero: Archana Shekara
Redbird Impact named Archana Shekara the spring 2023 Campus Hero for her work as creative director of Design Streak Studio, a research-based social innovation lab that focuses on human-centered service design.
Inspiring an impactful cycle
Lizzy Carroll ’17 hated high school. Her attendance was dismal, and she felt completely unmotivated to try. But then, two educators personally connected with Carroll during her junior year at Carl Sandburg High School in southwest suburban Chicago, and everything changed. “They took a genuine interest in what I liked to do, why I wasn’t
Get with the program
Illinois State University students learn the value of community recreation programs in Dr. Yun Chang’s Evaluating Agency Services course. By surveying participants, they help make the programs better.
Fluddles
Combine these two words, floods and puddles, and you get: fluddles. To some ears, it’s a quaint-sounding word, rhymes with cuddles, could even be something a child might say. But in nature, fluddles are quite significant and are the key component of a local wetlands preservation project.
