CSL Project Leader Community

Project Leader Profile:

Name: Danielle Blond

About: Coordinator, Communities of Practice, UBC-CLI,
M.Sc Planning Candidate, UBC SCARP,
2008 CSL Project Leader,
Project Leader community moderator.

Contact: danielle.blond@ubc.ca

Project I led: YWCA Rooftop Garden: Building Cold Frames (To read my project plan, click here)

I led a team of nine Civil engineering students in a 3-day Reading Week project where they designed, built and planted in cold frames (mini-greenhouses) at the YWCA Rooftop gardens. For pictures, click here.

I learned that Leadership means… being flexible and open. It also means stepping aside and supporting your students to be leaders themselves and highlighlight their strengths!

Advice for future Project Leaders:  I would highly recommend that if you are doing a project at the YWCA Rooftop Gardens or in the Downtown area, as a half-day activity, take the students on a walking tour of the Downtown Eastside. The UBC Learning Exchange has maps you can borrow. This is definitely a worth while tour and can really break down some of the negative stereotypes about the DTES.