Social Well-Being with Amanda Healy from the Ginsberg Center

What do non-U-M people have to do with our social well-being?

Dive into the necessity of having community outside of graduate school with Assistant Director for Community Partnerships, Amanda Healy. Learn all the ways the Ginsberg Center can help you connect to, engage with, and build community independent of your role as an academic and, in doing so, achieve greater social well-being as a graduate student here at Michigan.

Social Well-Being Resources 

• Ginsberg Center
• Ginsberg Graduate Consultant Program
• Connect2Community Portal
• MichiganX: Community Engagement—Collaborating for Change
• Campus Compact: Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement
• Community-Engaged Course Design Workshop (Ginsberg Center)
• Graduate Student Opportunities (Ginsberg Center)

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Guest Bio

Amanda Healy, Ph.D., assistant director for community partnerships at the Edward Ginsberg Center, received her Ph.D. in English and women’s studies here at the University of Michigan. Amanda is committed to addressing issues of inequality and power and she believes that education is a powerful motor for social change. This has led to her work in public engagement. While getting her Ph.D., Amanda received a fellowship with Rackham where she supported the development of Rackham’s Program in Public Scholarship. She also worked on a massive online open course entitled Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change. Amanda now works at the Ginsberg Center as their assistant director for community partnerships. In this role, she stewards and facilitates partnerships between the university, its students, and the community.