Meg Berkobien received our first Comparative Literature Graduate Student Internship Fellowship to work with 826michigan, a non-profit writing center based in Ann Arbor and Detroit that coordinates adult volunteers to work with school-aged students. As the In-Residence Intern at Estabrook Elementary and Middle School in Ypsilanti, she developed writing programs for ELL students focused on translation and publication. At Ypsilanti Community High School she conducted a series of workshops, entitled “Carrying Ourselves Across: The Art of Self-Translation.” She designed and published a book of their stories, translated by the students themselves from multiple languages into English. Meg reflects on the experience: “It has helped me develop my teaching range, and I feel confident that I can now develop workshops for students from third to twelfth grade.”
