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How I Became a Research Scientist
How I Became a Research Scientist
I am a product of the Socio-Economic Movements of the 1960’s and 70’s also known as Civil Rights, Anti - (Vietnam)War, College Student’s, Black Power and Urban Unrest. In 1968, I entered Brooklyn College as a single parent, visual artist and classical pianist / symphony and jazz bassoonist from a household where my father was an Educator / established visual artist and master pianist. I was among the students who formed the Afro-American Studies Department and the Brooklyn College Day Care Center.
Discussion Topics
Community Well-Being
“Well-being” as it pertains to health came out of the United Nations where some countries included it in their definition of optimal health. I became aware of this reality around 2004 as a consultant on an integrated physical and mental health project. The majority of recent research in this area comes from a Global perspective. We can easily apply this concept to inner-city development.
Local Research For Focused Change
Press Release
Activating Social Solutions presents: a historical context; reinforces personal and community well-being; motivates personal commitment; as well as gives direction for focused future activities that could bring about social change in various unique settings.
Synopsis
We who are Brilliant Beyond All Imagination have done this before and we can do it again – Gathering “Change Agents for Self-Actualization”. Social Solutions individuals can bring together the people they know and work on projects resolving that targeted objective. “Activating Solutions” presents ideas for individuals and groups to adopt, as social catalysts for the greater good, while ensuring self-directed activities as we Save-Our-Selves One-by-One and All-Together.
Biography in Brief
Biography in Brief
Verda H. Olayinka was inspired to write, (2016) Activating Social Solutions: Essential Keys to Progress, (2nd Ed. 2020) after observing the nationwide “Occupy” and “Black Lives Matter” Movements. She was concerned that folks were demonstrating and returning home to social conditions that were the same as when they left. The book attempts to cultivate another strategy for developing Change Agents and Social Solutions Groups that would meet in a safe space, and work with people they already know, to plan and execute local change projects. Activating Social Solutions... provides the ground work in understanding of the role of the social sciences needed to take place in order to reinforce and ensure focused continued success.