Our First Meeting with AFSC

We met on Wednesday with Tim Franzen, the project coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee's Southeast region. Conveniently, the group's offices are literally 2 blocks away from the GSU campus which should make working together fairly smooth. I think I can speak for our entire group in saying how impressed we were with Tim's passion for what he does. This definitely translated through to the project and we are all really excited to see where things head. At this point it looks like we may end up focusing on an Atlanta-focused program, SCAP (Student Career Alternatives Program), that provides support to at-risk students who have few options after high school.

Below are several photos from our meeting (some taken by Victoria, and a few OF Victoria taking them - we are all over this reflexivity thing!). We also audio recorded the entire meeting and will be posting some of that audio here in the coming days. As of now, we are going to discuss today whether we think it would be valuable for me (T.J.) to head down to do some shooting at a statewide meeting of the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition this Saturday in Macon. We also need to continue fleshing out exactly what stories we want to tell (there is a wealth of options after our meeting with Tim), and begin to lay out a production schedule.

Pics Below include: Victoria snapping shots of Tim and the AFSC office, as well as Tim Franzen (on the right) with one of the local veterans who works with the group.