Hannah who?

I am passionate about Detroit politics, urban design/planning, social justice and most of all, transit. I also make art, fix bicycles, travel and host couchsurfers. I find value in connecting people together and also to new ideas and opportunities.

Some things in this blog:

In this blog you will find remnants of my year as a Rotary Academic Ambassadorial Scholar. I attended the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in 2008, and with another scholar, Paul Goldberg, co-founded Scholars for Schools, a

nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education in central Chile. Scholars for Schools is still active today in the capable hands of Chilean Rotarians and community activists.

I studied Political Science and other subjects at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, including an ambitious Political Science/Honors Seminar entitled “African Democracy Project: Mozambique”, and blogged about this course throughout Fall 2009. In October of the same year I went to Mozambique to learn about democracy, elections, and the stickiness involved in managing a nation.

passions:

human-based applications of science (architecture/design/engineering) to solve the world’s most difficult problems // functional design // data visualization // urban planning and urban hacks // open source // DIY culture

social justice //  government reform // skepticism // stoicism // sociolinguistics // anthropology and the celebration of the everyday // folk- music/art/lore // poetry // free thinking and living // understanding and experiencing places

letters and letter-writing/art // plastic cameras // t-shirts // film // large bodies of water // maps // coffee //  licorice anything

sewing // cooking // bi-/unicycling

Detroit // Michigan, Mexico, Chile, Canada

dialects, enclaves, puns (especially if I can pull them off in another language)

primary e-mail: hannahkelley@gmail.com

skype: hannahkelley