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They are drop-in and participants can come whenever they are free. WHO: Mindfulness@Michigan WHEN: 4:15 to 4:45 pm WHERE: Angell Hall, G243 Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts WHAT: Online community learning event where participants discern fact from fiction and find credible news sources. WHO: Office of Academic Innovation WHEN: Noon to 5 p.m. WHERE: teach-out.org Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, says there are several ways in which those in poverty can escape their situation. One of these ways is by living a “startup life.” Brooks, who gave a talk Wednesday afternoon about escaping poverty through entrepreneurship as a part of the Policy Talks at the Ford School of Public Policy, said living a “startup life” includes taking risks and using weaknesses to propel strengths. He also discussed how those in positions of privilege can help those in poverty. Brooks highlighted the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, an organization based in Houston, Texas, that works to educate and mentor men in prison on starting and running their own businesses. “People walking around who can’t work, they’re literally the most vulnerable people in our society today,” Brooks said. “The reason the Prison Entrepreneurship Program exists is because they’re trying to find a way to solve this.” Of the men who were took part in the program, only 7 percent went back to jail in their first three years out, as opposed to 50 percent of those who were not a part of the program, according to Brooks. Through the program, Brooks said, he realized what the incarcerated men were learning was changing their outlooks on life. Suddenly, they started talking about the things that were going right in their lives and living like an enterprise. “I thought I was going to find the secret to startup businesses, and what I found was the secret to startup lives,” Brooks said. “See, when I talked to these guys, they didn’t want to talk about their businesses and the money they were making. They wanted to talk about all the things that were going right in their lives because they had learned about entrepreneurship.” Public Health student Stuart Hammond came to the event because he wanted to get Brooks’s perspective on capital within entrepreneurship. “I have experience working in pretty low-income settings and so I was interested in what he was going to say about the role of capital in having successful entrepreneurial experiences,” Hammond said. “The indirect way that he talked about it was he did talk about these people coming out of prison, they had time, and time itself is a resource that you can capitalize on.” The men in the program implemented two things Brooks later recognized were part of people living “startup lives”: taking risks and using weaknesses to propel strengths. Brooks cited a study done by Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago and the co-author of Freakonomics, which looked at participants facing a big decision. Levitt told the participants that he would make the decision for them through the flip of a coin, with heads being yes and tails being no. Meeting on the first floor of the Michigan Union Wednesday night, speakers at the South Asian Awareness Network event discussed civic engagement, political issues and their personal experiences working in government. Christine Stead, president of the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board, and Bobby McKenzie, director of the Muslim Diaspora Initiative, answered questions from community engagement chairs Subhan Chaudry, a Business sophomore, and Srinidhi Subramanian, an LSA senior. Chaudry and Subramanian moderated the event for an hour and then entered an open, unmoderated discussion with attendees. Three state representatives were also scheduled to attend but were unable to attend last minute. Stead discussed her years of experience working in the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board extensively. She said living in Ann Arbor has led her to become passionate about education in politics. “It’s been a huge privilege for me to grow up in this town because education is important here, and that’s unique,” Stead said. “Education in general — it’s given me every opportunity that I have.” Stead voiced her opposition to the work of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos when she worked in Michigan on the Detroit charter school system, saying her school-choice system works well in theory but has led to the disenfranchisement of a number of students in the city. Stead also encouraged attendees to become involved in the political process in any way that they could. She identified the use of technology by young people as a new way to vote and participate. Stead was satisfied with the dialogue at the event and the role she and McKenzie played despite the absence of the other speakers. “Between the two of us, we had some hopefully helpful tactical ideas around how to raise an issue and stay engaged and get to solutions,” Stead said. “These things unfortunately do take time, and they also take lots of people to kind of create momentum. But I’m hoping people heard something that is useful and constructive.” McKenzie spoke on his experience as the head of the MDI and working with legislators on local, state and national scales. He recounted his experiences working with hard- right Republican congressmen and his ability to pesuade them to work with him. Despite being a Democrat, he said, using data and objective explanations of the problems the MDI faces helped to bridge the political gap. He said a major problem with the American political environment is that politicians are forced to pander to their bases instead of working constructively across the aisle. He praised the skills and competence of elected officials, but he also expressed frustration with the political requirements of the system and what he views as the limits it places on progress. Chaudry said this event is the first of its kind for SAAN. He said the organization is now able to help students effect change on campus and that that has become a goal for the leadership. “All we’ve ever focused on is awareness and knowledge and getting that out, but we’ve never really gone into the activism area,” Chaudry said. “And that was a big thing for us: How do we get people energized? How do we help them in achieving these goals? Because yeah, we can teach them all about these issues and show them what’s wrong. But in the end, if we don’t do anything about it, there’s no solution.” LSA senior Sahr Yazdani, a board member for SAAN and part of the marketing team, expressed a similar excitement about the evolving role of the organization and this event. “Events like these are really important because they remind students of their ability to make change and to catalyze something that could actually be productive for people in the future,” Yazdani said. Stead and McKenzie answered several questions about student activism on the University of Michigan campus specifically and said persistence is key for any kind of advocacy. After the event, Stead expressed her optimism in the face of ongoing challenges and her confidence in student activists. 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