[Imc] Dissertation reminder.

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hello fellow IMC-istas:

It's been several months since I last mentioned that I plan to do my 
dissertation about the IMC and I thought that given how many new people 
have joined, I should make the announcement again.  If you have any 
questions feel free to e-mail me (please do not just respond to the entire 
group).

As a graduate student in social-ecological psychology, I have been studying 
how communities can empower themselves to fight for social justice.  In 
school, my focus has been on affecting institutional change through the 
field of Community Psychology.  As a community activist, I've been engaged 
in these fights myself.

When we first started talking about the idea of founding what became the 
Urbana-Champaign IMC, I began looking for ways to merge these two parallel 
roles.  During the Fall of 2000, I brought up this idea with the IMC 
organizing collective and was given the green light.  I also talked with my 
faculty advisor and was given the go-ahead.

I plan to write about how the IMC, as an organization, is an empowering 
structure, the ways in which the IMC has impacted our local community, and 
the effect the IMC has had locally, regionally, nationally, etc.

Once again, if you have any questions, let me know,

--Sascha Meinrath