arcarpenter

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Name: Ames Carpenter
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACarpenter22
About: Ames has been a reporter for The Rapidian since 2016. They are a community organizer working with Grand Rapids Area Mutual Aid Network, Together We Are Safe, the Grand Rapids Area Tenant Union, Defund the GRPD, Camp ARYV, Movimiento Cosecha GR, GR Rapid Response to ICE, and national organizer DiDi Delgado and Done For DiDi. Ames has written poems and nonfiction appearing in Voices, Peninsula Poets, The 3288 Review, and Parabola magazines. Their chapbook, The One Inside An Onion, won the Celery City Chapbook Contest in 2016 and was published by the same.
Roles: New Reporter
Articles Published: 54

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Published List

07/28/2017 Amplify GR meeting: What does community ownership look like?

06/15/2017 Celebrating dads, diversity at the Burton Heights reunion

06/13/2017 #GRTalksBack on policing: meetings use small-group format

06/09/2017 Community listening sessions: What will you say about policing?

05/10/2017 City Commission 101: Five ways to be more effective when you go

04/26/2017 Apoye 'Un Día Sin Inmigrantes' el 1º de Mayo, 2017

04/25/2017 Support 'A Day Without Immigrants' on May 1, 2017

04/06/2017 Mothers of boys stopped at gunpoint by police, 'trying to make change'

03/29/2017 When grown men point loaded weapons at 12-year-old boys, none of us should sleep well at night

03/24/2017 How far will we go to prioritize equity in Grand Rapids?

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