Conversation #27: Civic Engagement

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A conversation with Amy Koritz of Drew University on teaching, learning and civic engagement.

Saying to somebody there's a 20% poverty rate is very different from introducing them to somebody who is in poverty and hearing their story.

Amy Koritz is the director for the Center for Civic Engagement at Drew University and professor of English. As the director of the Center for Civic Engagement, Dr. Kortiz is integral to the development of sustaining partnerships between the university and the community. She is the co-editor of Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina and author of Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s.

Links for this episode:

• The Center for Civic Engagement at Drew University
• Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life