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Project Proposal

For my unit 3 final Project I plan on constructing an infographic that depicts the historical and current problems members of LGBTQIA+ community in corporate America. I also intend on including some resources that help to stress the importance of equal opportunities for Queer individuals. The most important sources that I hope to find are first hand testimonies and scholarly articles/ journals. Articles and journals are rich in statistics and other information that can be easily represented visually while conveying the magnitude of inequality on part of Queer people in the workplace. Hyperlinks will also be added to the reference of the infographic, however, I also plan on using quotes from blog posts that exemplify what it is like to work in an inclusive environment vis-à-vis one that lacks capital for members of the LGBTQIA+.

I want to keep my writing engaging and easy to read because I want to reach a wide audience. There will be some information for Queer individuals who want to learn about how inequity takes shapes throughout various professions, however my target audience are people who identify as allies to the LGBGTQIA+ community. The purpose of my writing will be to bring awareness to a topic that is well known amongst the people who it directly effects but is no taken into consideration by those it does not. I want to provide reliable information for those who might not be aware of the inequalities and want to take steps in correcting them.

Project Proposal – Dylan

My proposed project is to create a blog focused on the ways artificial intelligence is being used in human resources with the mission of advocating for more transparency around how it is used and more accountability from the organizations that are using it. My goal is to create a “home” or resource center for this topic where interested parties can gather to get and share information and potentially mobilize to change public policy. My target audience would be anyone concerned with protecting worker and civil rights, including the workers themselves, but more specifically individuals who have some authority to make change, such as disability rights activists, social justice activists, journalists, people working in employment law, and elected officials.

Given the amount of time left in the summer session, I envision launching a basic framework for the blog that will include a welcome message to explain the major issues and stakes related to AI in HR and to inspire others to participate in creating a community with me. My message will include embedded links to relevant supporting sources. In the blog framework, I will also create a subsection for Recommended Reading, where links to important research and articles can be found, and a subsection for an Advocacy Toolkit. I’m still trying to decide exactly what would go into these sections, but I know I want to at least provide readers with a few recommendations for practical things they can do to help the cause. I would love to spark a movement that would lead to real change.

Project Proposal – Zoe Miller

For my unit 3 project I am going to educate people about discrimination against people who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community by using what I learned in unit 2 creating my research portfolio. I plan to use the sources that are in my portfolio, and any other sources I stumble upon, to create a memo that can be handed out in schools, offices, public places like restaurants and stores, and anywhere else that people are interacting with others. The sources that I have to help me contain examples of discrimination in different settings, different people’s stories and experiences and how it affected them, and information about the laws that are enforced or not enforced in each state in America.

I would like to make a fairly short memo that is long enough to get all of the information across but not too long that people get bored. I know that it will need to be a few pages in order to get all of the information that I learned onto it but I would like for it to be something that if people pass by they can still get something out of it. I am going to most likely put some of the experiences statistics, and facts that I researched onto the memo to provide evidence and make myself a credible source. I will also aim to keep the writing style somewhat simple so that people of all ages can read and understand it and to allow for it to be a quick read.

I am writing for people who interact with other people, which is everyone. Most people who are not experiencing this type of discrimination, or discrimination at all, might not realize what they do not know about it. I was shocked to learn how much I did not know about it and honestly feel badly that I thought I knew the entire story about what they experience. My goal is to reach them with more information about what people who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community experience in result of discrimination and what others can do to eliminate the effects and even maybe end discrimination.