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work_ddodysn6uvfgzivehb3ku2hzdq	Eric Haanstad	The Crucial Role of Community Liaisons in Place-Based Experiential Education Organizations	2020	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5294	362	39	The Crucial Role of Community Liaisons in Place-Based Experiential Education Organizations In 2014, community volunteers and university grant writers created the Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2), focused on revitalizing a river tributary that stretches throughout the Southeast neighborhood As an intern, Valor2 informally and organically became a community liaison as a neighborhood BCe2's ongoing community-university partnership as a collaborative place-based experiential learning project, this paper explores the crucial importance of employing community liaisons in similar locally-based community liaisons, individuals who live and work within neighborhoods in which collaborative organizations are based, provide critically-needed rapport, advocacy, and direct input from community members. Through Valor's knowledge of the Southeast neighborhood and an ability to gain trust, the BCe2 organization's interdisciplinary interests in local collaboration benefited profoundly from his active presence as a As the project developed, several other interns from South Bend also worked as emergent community 	./cache/work_ddodysn6uvfgzivehb3ku2hzdq.pdf	./txt/work_ddodysn6uvfgzivehb3ku2hzdq.txt