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Workday at DPSCD.<\/p><\/div>\n
Tell us about your host company and your role in the organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n My host company was DPSCD and I worked in the HR department. Throughout the year I assisted with general office duties and helped the various HR divisions. I was also responsible for modernizing the DPSCD employee hubsite.<\/p>\n Tell us about a challenge project you\u2019ve worked on; what have you learned from the experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n For our final challenge project, I worked with Abayomi CDC which is a non-profit community development center located on 8 mile RD. During this project we learned the importance of faith and community.<\/p>\n How do you hope to impact the community as a Fellow?<\/strong> Since becoming a Fellow, what new skill\/skills have you gained?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have learned to communicate with different personality types more effectively.<\/p>\n How do you believe your fellowship year will shape your career moving forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n I believe that my fellowship gave me the skills needed to get my foot in the door for project management positions.<\/p>\n What has been your biggest takeaway from your time as a Fellow?<\/strong><\/p>\n My biggest takeaway from the fellowship was being able to meet with new people. We come from different backgrounds but are more similar than we realize.<\/p>\n What would you say to someone who is considering applying to be a Fellow? <\/strong> Downtown Detroit, near Beacon Park.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Selene Clark is a 2021-2022 Fellow. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and attended Wayne State University where she earned a Bachelor\u2019s in Business Administration. She is currently in school for her MBA. Tell us about your host company and your role in the organization. My host company was DPSCD and I worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":28031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,17,12,18,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-givedetroit","category-leaddetroit","category-livedetroit","category-playdetroit","category-workdetroit","category-y10-fellow-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI hope to use what I have learned to highlight the challenges facing impoverished neighborhoods in Detroit.<\/p>\n
\nIf you are considering becoming a fellow, I encourage you to take the challenge! You won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-10.13.58-PM-264x300.png\")