Courage

On Monday October 20th, A Parker alumni, Kara Crutcher, came and spoke to the grade about Courage, a anti violence and harassment campaign on the CTA.  She first told us about her own personal experience, where someone had verbally harassed her near the CTA.  From this experience, she developed empathy for the problem.  Kara developed Courage to support people and to discourage harassers on the bus.
      My favorite part of her presentation came next.  She gave us the opportunity to design a Courage poster to submit to the CTA in groups of 5.  In my group we brainstormed what a visual representation of courage would be.  Together we figured out that the best visual representation would be a man and woman holding out their hands to say halt.  We quickly began working on Adobe Illustrator to create a graphic around the Courage logo.    It was very cool to actually get involved with a campaign, instead of just listening to one.  We unfortunately did not get to finish our poster, but i attached the progress to this post!
    To conclude, i thought that Kara Crutcher was extremely inspiring.  My favorite part of her presentation was her speech on how to never give up on something you are passionate about.  She worked so hard to achieve her goal, and everyday more and more people are wanting to get involved or spread the word.  Thank you Kara for visiting Parker!