I'm here!

Happy New Year.

It's official, y'all.  I'm actually at Howard in DC.  Woo!

Moving process went well.  I like the apartment and my roommate. All set to go.

Check out my student ID and metro cards:

The weather isn't the worst, but it's not the best either.  I don't like how gray it's been, so I'm hoping for a little more sun soon.

Really looking forward to building a career in  advocacy work.  Headed to a Getting Your Point Across: A Symposium on Effective Messaging, Policy, and Advocacy sponsored by WIN tomorrow.  The keynote speaker is Jessica Arons, Director of Women's Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress.  I'm pretty excited. (Again, woo!)

OK.  So that's it. I'm here. Stay tuned.

Almost there.

Hello, friends! Happy Holidays, etc.

I went to the HUSSW grad school orientation earlier this month and now I'm all set.  We (family and I) will be moving on January 6th!  So, next time you hear from me, it'll probably be in 2011 after I settled in and become a Bison for real!

Wish me luck.

Happy New Year,

Kia

Certified.

It's here!  My grad certificate for nonprofit management.  It arrived while I was in DC.  Check out the (fuzzy) proof!

Elections and blogging

Right after coming home from my DC trip, I returned to work and prepared right away for election madness!  I served as a precinct official during last week's mid-term election.  That means for like, 12-13 hours I was "stuck" inside precinct 01-23!  I enjoy it, though.  Glad to have learned so much about what it takes to make sure folks can cast their ballots and have their votes counted.


In other voting related news, I blogged about the elections for Choice USA.  This was my first post as a part of Choice USA's "new" blog team (I was a member of the old one).  Choice USA has a new blogging approach.  Each day now has an assigned theme and assigned bloggers.  My postings on reproductive rights and policy go up on Mondays.  Click the picture below to read my entry.

ChoicePolicy: Election Wrap-Up (Not all bad, but not too good…)

Howard Visit Pics!

I'm back from my DC trip.  Aside from a few administrative struggles, I enjoyed my visit to the campus.

Instead of making a separate album, I'm just going to post the pics here:

American Federation of Teachers

Bethune Annex, Howard U.

Biology Building

Capitol

Fine Arts Bldg.

College of Arts and Sciences

Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall

Georgetown Law Ctr.

Hishorn Art Museum and Sculpture Garden

Howard Math/Science Middle School

National Guard Museum

Live camera at Smithsonian Information Center a.k.a "the castle" shows Pandas as DC Zoo!

Physics Bldg in "Death Valley" at Howard

Postal Museum

Student Union

Tubman Quandrangle at Howard

Washington Monument

DC In 5 Days!

This is my attempt to start posting more.  There haven't been many DC-related happenings and I don't like to post just 'cause.  Now, I have some pretty exciting stuff to write about!

First, I'm headed to DC this weekend to visit the campus and sort out some administrative things. Then, I'm going to look for a place to stay.  I've had some great conversations with a nice house manager in the Brookland neighborhood and I'm looking forward to viewing the house during this trip.  I also get to hang out with my friend Joy!

So, there you go.  Updates and pics from my "adventure" to come!

New Photos!

Hi there, folks!  Been a minute (more like a month), I know. I finally got those 4th of July pics up.  The album is linked on the Photos and Videos page.

I've also updated my resume if you want to check it out.

I'm headed to DC sometime in October to visit Howard and get ideas for places to stay.

That's all for now.

Later.