A21 Global Freedom Summit at Millikin

 

Yesterday was the implementation of our A21 Global Freedom Summit class project! We had over 50 people from the community and one student went down to the cafeteria to bring up more attendees. The students in my PO 323 Human Trafficking developed an interactive game, educational information to teach people about human trafficking, a public relations strategy, and an advocacy table to advocate change in our community (with QR codes and post cards to mail to representatives). The human trafficking button making was a hit and many people played the roll your fate human trafficking scenario game that students developed. The new Millikin president even stopped by and chatted with students. We also had the event featured in our student newspaper The Decaturian "A21’s Global Freedom Summit Comes to Millikin" and the Decatur Tribune "Millikin University to host anti-trafficking Global Freedom Summit film screening."

In class the next day we debriefed on what went well and what we could work on for future events. The students will write a paper on their reflections of the class project and working in groups but the event overall was sucessful. I am always a little worried that no one will attend when students put so much work and effort into the different tables but we had people telling us the next day how great it was so I think we can take the lessons learned for next time!