Teen Girls Re-Vision East Rogers Park

DePaul students and faculty collaborated with members of two teen girls' programs at Family Matters, a community organization in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.  This project was designed to further empower this group of urban teens from low-income families who were members of a thriving community-based leadership program.  Through a life narrative project, we interviewed the teens and developed their words into a published text (in both English and Spanish editions) and an original dramatic performance.  Through this process, DePaul students increased their awareness of a central principle of community-based research:  that the complexity of diversity issues and interlocking oppressions of sexism, racism and classism can profoundly impact the lives of real young women in our own urban community. 

Published Research Monograph (English)	Published Research Monograph (Spanish)
Teen Girls Poetry "Open Your Eyes" Open your eyes to the sounds of the world. Open your eyes to all the cries that they've heard. Open your eyes to the hope that we have, and open your eyes and realize it's good to be glad. I opened my eyes to the love and the joy, I opened my eyes to the world as a whole. Just look around and think for me, Because you know, Our world is not what it appears to be.