Ethical or not?

If we are more transparent and give them more of an education (e.g. pathogens in water, boil water) on what we are doing, then yes.

 

Facts

• I am an academic researcher expecting several publications out of the research study in Lesotho
• There are clear signs that Lesotho water has disease causing pathogens 
• Their methods for storing water are different and uncommon compared to previous knowledge of the research team 
• Driving the community members up the lake in exchange for information is considered good enough payment – do not expect actual pay
• We need to rely heavily on indigenous knowledge to move towards a clear problem statement or solution 
• The research team and I are experts in pathogen/ disease research (health medicine and society)
• Research funded by an outside source, university/lab/government that expects a clear outcome
• We are hoping that the chemical additives will make the water safer to drink, but there will be costs involved that we are unsure they can afford 
• assume all IRB’s have been obtained 
• Assume we would get assistance from the local community
• There may be implications of not being able to complete the study (funding, brand, relationships may be affected) – to avoid this, ahead of time, do research on stakeholders

 

Stakeholders and Motivations

• Local water company
  • Get out product/earn revenue
  • Help those patients involved
• University/lab/government (Funding agency)
  • Treat spread of disease
  • Reputation of gaining academic knowledge on pathogen
  • Funding agency will have their name attached to the possible solution
  • More advertising – want to be a world leader in the field – want to build up their brand
  • More partners

• Research team
  • Help patients involved
  • Further their career and potentially making money 
  • Earn more money to continue doing research and get continuous funding
• Local people
  • Create healthier living environment 
  • Have safer water to drink
  • Lessen the risk of contracting a disease-causing pathogen
  • Excitement to learn and socialize – but their vulnerability may result in wanting you to hear what you want to hear – they do not want to come off as ignorant – they may reinforce your ideas because they think you’re smart and want to agree. On the other hand, some may be weary to trust an outsider so make sure you talk to the right people 
  • Negotiating entry
  • Cleaner water may lead to more tourism/more business connections 
• Tertiary Stakeholder Hospital/ health care workers (third party to the solution in its direct implications)
  • Treat people with the illness
  • Make sure hospital isn’t always at capacity – prevent future cases
  • can devote their resources to something else 
• Academic Journal
  • Getting new and credible information that will better their reputation and add to their plethora of knowledge
• Yourself (Researcher)
  • Help local communities involved
  • (Hopefully) Actual interest/passion for social impact 
  • Understand the lifecycle and characteristics of the pathogen and the chemical
  • Boost credentials
  • Maintain your job and further career

 

Ethical Issues

• Should we focus on rare diseases that only affect a few people?
• Negotiating entry: who are we going to incentivize 
  • community health workers? 

 

Alternative Solutions

• Send prepaid sampling supplies and provide incentives to the people to gather water samples/take surveys seeing where people get water from
  • Pros: 
    • Local water company: get out product and earn revenue
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): save travelling expenses, treat spread of disease, gain reputation and more partners
    • Research team: save the time to travel, help patients involved, futher their career, make potential profit
    • Local people: drink safer water, gain profit, learn more knowledge about pathogens, gain potential tourism
    • Hospital/health care workers: treat patients more efficiently, prevent future cases
    • Academic journal: gain reputation, spread the new information on pathogens
    • Yourself (Researcher): help local community involved, understand the lifecycle and characteristics of the pathogen, boost credentials, maintain your job and further career
  • Cons: 
    • Local water company: short of clean water resource
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): samples might be taken incorrectly, lose reputation, extra money on hiring volunteers
    • Research team: extra time on checking the water source
    • Local people: take wrong water sample, patients would need longer time to recover
    • Hospital/health care workers: more people might get the disease
    • Academic journal: extra time on checking the accuracy of research, might lose reputation due to wrong sample and wrong result
    • Yourself (Researcher): extra time to filter the correct sample, might be unable to maintain your job if there is one mistake
  • Principle: Consequence based thinking
• To find water sources on our own without any local assistance 
  • Pros: 
    • Local water company: save time on supporting the research, get revenue and probably safer water source
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): save money spent on local assistance, gain reputation and more potential partners, treat spread of disease
    • Research team: removes ethical dilemma regarding the community, help patients, further their career and potentially making money
    • Local people: have safer water and less risk on getting the disease, learn new knowledge, gain potential tourism
    • Hospital/health care workers: treat patients more efficiently, prevent future cases
    • Academic journal: gain reputation, spread the new information on pathogens
    • Yourself (Researcher): save funding, help local community involved, understand the lifecycle and characteristics of the pathogen, boost credentials, maintain your job and further career
  • Cons: 
    • Local water company: lack of clean water source
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): extra cost on longer time of research
    • Research team: extra time to check the sample and to find the water with pathogens
    • Local people: no opportunity to learn, longer time to receive safer water, higher risk of getting this illness
    • Hospital/health care workers: higher risk of disease spreading, need to treat more patients
    • Academic journal: extra time on checking the accuracy of research, might lose reputation due to wrong sample and wrong result
    • Yourself (Researcher): could be gathering water where they do not drink from and it could take much longer than if you asked the community
  • Principle: Duty based thinking
• Blueprint: How to move forward with what we found; how they can progress with our research findings to stay healthy and lessen the risk of getting the pathogen – and then ultimately make publication available to people here  
  • Pros: 
    • Local water company: the water source will not be affected
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): save travelling expenses, treat spread of disease, gain reputation and more partners
    • Research team: save the time to travel, help patients involved, futher their career, make potential profit
    • Local people: their normal life will not be interrupted
    • Hospital/health care workers: expect a decline of patient number after the publication, get the patients a better treatment
    • Academic journal: gain reputation, spread the new information on pathogens
    • Yourself (Researcher): save the time to travel, save travelling expenses, understand the lifecycle and characteristics of the pathogen, boost credentials, maintain your job and further career
  • Cons:
    • Local water company: require longer time to make the water safer to drink, will not make profit
    • University/lab/government (funding agency): extra cost on longer time of research
    • Research team: cost more, extra time on checking the sample and to find the water with pathogens
    • Local people: no opportunity to learn, longer time to receive safer water, higher risk of getting this illness
    • Hospital/health care workers: higher risk of disease spreading, need to treat more patients
    • Academic journal: more time to publish
    • Yourself (Researcher): extra time to do the research, might be unable to maintain your job if there is one mistake
  • Principle: Consequence based thinking

When keeping a solution in mind you want to keep it practical and efficient. The study needs to be done correctly in order for the trip to be successful.

Best course of action

Most realistic would be making progress with the current findings in the lab on how to reduce the risk of getting the pathogen, and meanwhile sending prepaid sampling supplies, enough education, transparent information, and incentives to local people for collecting water samples at the correct location.

Negative implication: Local people might still get wrong samples, so it requires longer time to get a result. Thus, extra cost will be needed from the funding agencies, while the disease might spread at the same time.

Facts

• Syringe designer
• Adding auto-disable function increases cost
• Must be low cost
• Not adding auto-disable is a safety hazard

Stakeholders

• Company
  • Get out product/earn revenue
  • Help those patients involved
• Hospitals (administration)
  • Treat spread of disease
• Doctors & nurses
  • Help patients involved
• Patients
  • Get better at low cost and safely
• Yourself (Designer)
  • Help patients involved
  • Maintain your job

Ethical Issue

• Is it better to treat more people by having the syringe be low cost and more accessible or is it better to reduce the potential of spread of disease by including an auto disable function?

Alternative Solutions

• Waste/hazard bin in hospitals
  • No safety feature but require bins to safely dispose of syringes
  • Pros:
    • Company: saves cost, get revenue, gain reputation and more potential partners
    • Hospitals: saves cost on cheap syringes, can treat patients more efficiently
    • Doctors & nurses: smaller storage of syringes, more convenient
    • Patients: get better at low cost, more affordable syringes
    • Yourself: help patients, solve the dilemma, and maintain your job
  • Cons:
    • Company: extra cost
    • Hospitals: uncleaned used syringes will cause problems, the disease will spread
    • Doctors & nurses: if the disease spreads, it’s less likely to maintain their jobs
    • Patients: still safety hazard
    • Yourself: need disposal system for waste (another source of costs, barrier to adoption)
  • Principle: Consequence based thinking
• More time to develop product
  • Safety feature added
  • Pros:
    • Company: reduce cost of adding the safety feature, get revenue, gain reputation and more potential partners
    • Hospitals: safer and more efficient resouces
    • Doctors & nurses: more efficient treatment
    • Patients: get better at low cost and high safety
    • Yourself: help patients, solve the dilemma, and maintain your job
  • Cons:
    • Company: extra cost on funding of research
    • Hospitals: higher risk of disease spreading
    • Doctors & nurses: need to treat more patients
    • Patients: longer time for recovery
    • Yourself: more time needed, fewer patients helped in the time of research and development
  • Principle: Consequence based thinking
• Reach out for more funding
  • Add safety feature and make cheaper from funding sources
  • Pros:
    • Company: get revenue, gain reputation and more potential partners
    • Hospitals: safer and more efficient resouces, safety feature added
    • Doctors & nurses: more efficient treatment
    • Patients: get better at low cost and high safety
    • Yourself: help patients, solve the dilemma, and maintain your job
  • Cons:
    • Company: extra cost on fundings
    • Hospitals: higher risk of disease spreading in the meantime
    • Doctors & nurses: need to treat more patients
    • Patients: more time before syringes go to market, longer time for recovery
    • Yourself: more time needed
  • Principle: Relationship based thinking

Best course of action

• Most realistic would be taking more time to develop product for a cheaper way of adding the auto disable but also possible to do waste bin at the same time in order to attempt maximizing use of vaccine/treatment as soon as possible

• Think of how to recycle the syringe
• Green/red tabs for used syringes
• Negative implication: More cases of patient might appear during the time of research and development. Extra cost on development is needed.

1. Refine the detailed income statement for your venture for two years (at six-month intervals) or a more appropriate time scale. Explicitly state the assumptions that underlie your financial model.

2. Refine the Business Model for your venture based on your revenue model. You may use the Osterwalder BMC to refine your business model but prepare one or more visuals that explain how your venture will work and accomplish your BHAG.

Our project does not involve costs and expenses too much, besides the donation and the ticket fee.

3. Develop an M&E plan for your venture.

• Clearly list all assumptions.
• Identify short-term and long-term success metrics.
• Identify specific methods to measure the metrics.

Although the current situation has thrown off a lot of plans, our goals remain the same. In the short term, we will publish a revised version of scripts and develop a website for our project. We hope to have at least 100 audiences for the performance. We will get them by flyers and social media propaganda, keep them by revising versions of our play and inviting authorities and grow them by showing them the status quo, the expected result, and the actual result. The revenue stream will be direct sales as ticket fee and donations to a professional group that helps improve the bailing system. The expected amount of donation will be decided after we contact the Bailing System Organization. In the long term, our final goal is to lower the incarceration rate and the recidivism rate by showing it to the politicians who can take direct actions. We hope to raise people’s awareness and understanding of the mass incarceration situation in the U.S. through our efforts. If we succeed in arousing the audience’s empathy, there might be less discrimination.

Income Statement → service provided: providing the educational games/apps (not the headset or hardware)

• Revenue: 
  • Licensing fee every time a teacher/ educator downloads the game or app
  • Less than a cup of coffee $3.50, one time member cost
• Costs of goods sold: 
  • Purchase of minimum required equipment for the development (e.g., 1 VR-ready/gaming computer, 1 Oculus Rift, 1 Oculus GO) [approximate total = $3,000 ]
  • Salary of employees  directly involved in developing process (e.g., VR game developer, instructional designer)
  • Percent commision charged by Oculus store or other partnership platform for selling or distributing the game through them

 

• Overheads: 
  • Game engine costs for designing the game (ex. Unity software cost if make over 100k a year) → updates?
  • Marketing & sales costs
  • Utilities

 

Funding source #1  Lehigh University Office of Creative Inquiry

Why is it a good fit for our project? 

This is a key partnership and the office that our project is working out of and building from the initial idea. The goal of the Office and our project aligns with creating impact locally and globally. Because this is a strong connection that we are already collaborating with, it is a primary funding source for our research stage.

Specific aspect this funding source might support: 

This funding source will support the actual design of our project product (i.e. the game) and implement the beta testing; it covers part of the costs of the necessary equipment and software. It may also fund the rental of media equipment to capture the local geography(content) of the Lehigh Watershed. 

 

Funding source #2  Principal Investigator’s personal funds

Why is it a good fit for our project? 

This is an initial source of funding for our project at our current stage. However, it is not a planned long term source of funding as it is not sustainable for the venture. Our project of iVR1 is in the process of being completed and the externalities not covered by other funding is covered personally.

Specific aspect this funding source might support:

This funding covers the costs of renting professional camera equipment to take 360 degree HD media of the content needed for the design of the game and covers other unexpected quality control issues. 

 

Dissemination Phase (Implementation, Distribution, Commercialization)→ 

 

Funding source #1  National Science Foundation (NSF) AISL (Advancing Informal STEM Learning)  

Why is it a good fit for our project? 

Our project addresses the target guidelines that this grant program supports; we are working with multiple local STEM centers to create a curriculum for environmental science that is engaging. This program supports the approach that we are taking towards education via cutting edge technology. The following are some excerpts from NSF’s Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) webpage (https://www.nsf.gov/ehr/drl/about.jsp):

“The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program builds on educational research and practice and seeks to increase interest in, engagement with, and understanding of STEM by individuals of all ages and backgrounds through self-directed STEM learning experiences.”

 

Specific aspect this funding source might support:

The AISL program supports six types of projects. Our venture work is very likely to be funded in the following  (1) Pilots and Feasibility Studies, (3) Innovations in Development, and (6) Conferences. This funding allows us to conduct our pilot and field testing after the design and development phase is complete as well as funds toward the end of publishing our work and disseminating the material through large conferences, etc.

 

Funding source #2  PPL Electric Services Empowering Educators Grants

Why is it a good fit for our project? 

In Pennsylvania, PPL participates in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, which allows companies to invest in projects that improve education. As an example, PPL’s Empowering Educators grant program provides grants to teachers working to spark an interest in STEM subjects. This is applicable to our project as it is a state based program and our venture focuses on local environmental science and STEM education within the state of Pennsylvania, specifically the Lehigh Valley. 

 

Specific aspect this funding source might support:

This funding might support the cost of buying the equipment such as the iVR headsets for the local STEM centers and public libraries. Also, it may be used to cover transportation costs of the implementation stage with our partners that are based all around the Lehigh Valley since some centers are a large distance away from the university.

 

PPL’s community involvement regarding volunteer work: 

“Employees are generous donors of volunteer time in schools, food banks, youth sports organizations, and many other community settings. PPL encourages employees to volunteer. In fact, the company donates $1,000 to nonprofits if an employee volunteers at least 40 hours in a calendar year. In 2018, employees volunteered more than 20,000 hours.”

As students of a non-profit (Lehigh University), many of us have volunteering work hours in the Lehigh University community. Thus, we might become part of the company’s statistics being receiving $1,000 in donations to support our dissemination stage. 

 

Ultimate goal → positively impact at least 1 million people.

 

Partnership #1 Oculus (from Facebook)  https://www.oculus.com

How would it help us achieve scale? Source A  

Oculus is an extremely large and far reaching platform to millions of users of cutting edge technology; educators interested in building curriculum utilizing this type of advanced technology and alternative media will be able to conveniently find a model (through our game) to use in their classrooms and spread it through word of mouth of at local school district meetings with other principal educators. School administrations may also learn of it and encourage impact through their open curriculum. 

Why would it be willing to work with us?

Oculus receives commision and tax for every purchase made on its platform as well as larger publicity–which in this case will be good press– because it can expand from being an entertainment dominated field to incorporate education as well. This builds up an even larger audience for profit as well as positive impact through supporting alternative learning.

 

Partnership #2 Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) https://immersivelrn.org/

How would it help us achieve scale?

This network connects us to other educators and researchers pursuing similar topics with iVR technology. It has national reach and will help us spread the word of our project through the conferences and publicational podcasts, and etc. that it holds. This can further help to connect us to other partners who may be interested in the same topic we are working on.

Why would it be willing to work with us?

iLRN would be willing to work with us because their goals of creating a larger audience for iVR research connects with our goal of gaining a larger audience for the project. We also hold a membership with the organization.

 

Partnership #3  Wildlands Conservancy https://www.wildlandspa.org/

How would it help us achieve scale?

They reach many people through their public outreach and youth programs such as the summer camps and eco-tourism activities. If we work with them, we will be able to build a large audience through connecting with visitors to the conservancy in person and advertising the project.

Why would it be willing to work with us?

As a non-profit whose goal is environmental sustainability, the organization would be very willing to work with our project of environmental education with engaging Lehigh Valley residents to interact with their local watershed. This falls in line with their initiatives to build impact on the protection and education of important natural areas and waterways; not to mention, they may receive more interest in STEM education programs through this type of new technology.

 

Partnership #4 Educators in VR  https://educatorsinvr.com/

How would it help us achieve scale? https://educatorsinvr.com/events/international-summit/

“The 2020 Educators in VR International Summit, February 17-22, 2020, was a free, open-to-the public, virtual educational conference featuring 170+ speakers in 150+ events across 5 virtual platforms over 6 days, 24 hours a day. It is considered the largest immersive virtual event of its kind in the world.”

 

In addition, they run a very active Discord community 24/7. 

 

Why would it be willing to work with us?

Educators in VR is dedicated to providing training programs and workshops for educators, learners, researchers, and anyone interested in creating educational events in VR. The workshops are a combination of free introductory programs and paid workshops. Here are some upcoming social VR examples:

• April 10 – How to Produce a Virtual Conference in AltspaceVR (Free)
• April 14 – Host and Moderator Training 101 in AltspaceVR (Free)
• April 16 – Speaker 101 Training in AltspaceVR (Free)

 

Partnership #5  PPL Electric Utilities https://www.pplelectric.com/safety-and-community/community-involvement/education.aspx

How would it help us achieve scale?

PPL has a variety of programs to teach electrical safety to children, first responders, contractors and members of the public. In addition, PPL is planning to deliver in-school programming to 100,000 children over five years. As part of PPL’s educational outreach initiatives, including funding STEM school programs, PPL supports high-quality educational opportunities for all students, with a particular emphasis on those in need.

Why would it be willing to work with us?

According to PPL’s core values, their success is tied to the success of the towns and cities they serve. Thus, PPL’s commitment to the local communities may be the reason why they would accept our venture’s partnership proposal.

1.Refine your Business Model Canvas:

My project does not fit the typical business model mold, so I think I don’t need to revise it into a visual one. We have already contacted the Ice House, the Pride Center, the International Voices, the Northampton Prison, the organization that works for the bailing system, and the End Mass Incarceration group from Power Lehigh Valley. We reached an agreement that we would carry on this project next semester. So I’m only going to explain how exactly we will deliver an end-to-end solution. We will publish our play on the magazine of the International Voices so that more people would know about it. After the performance, we will organize a discussion. Then it is the platform for Power Lehigh Valley and the bailing system organization to deliver speeches about the status quo and our expectations. Finally, we will ask the audience to donate some money for the bailing system organization.

 

2.Ten practical lessons from the business (revenue) models of ventures we reviewed today (or others you research) as they relate to your venture.

1. A more detailed timeline is required. As soon as the remote learning is over, we will contact our resources and start to plan the further steps of propaganda.
2. More fieldwork is very essential. We are going to have a volunteer visit to the Northampton Prison and have a talk with Dr. Bonnie and the women there.
3. We should make the questions more ethical and less offensive.
4. We should think of an effective way to make the audience engaged, such as the after-play discussion.
5. Efficiency is the most important concern!
6. In the introduction of the bailing system organization, it is better to include its effect on unemployment as well.
7. I’m a new one in the group, so I will need more training.
8. It is better to have more workers, so we can develop some of our casts into group members and researchers.
9. Our project does not involve financial costs much. So we should concern more about the donation.
10. We should never stop even we have made progress. Our final goal is to put the play into a larger region.

1. Develop a Business Model for your venture

I would like to call the social justice theatre of our project as a long term product.

1) Value Proposition:

-Education on mass incarceration and social justice system through immersive methods

-Sustainability-pushing this project forward to the politicians in the future

2) Customer segments: 

-Public theatres & art centers

-People in Lehigh Valley

3) Channels:

-Awareness

-Evaluation

-Purchase

4) Customer Relationships:

-GET them by flyers and social media propaganda

-KEEP them by revising versions of our play and inviting authorities

-GROW them by showing them the status quo, the expected result, and the actual result

5) Revenue stream:

-Direct sales-ticket fee & donation to a professional group that helps improve the bailing system

6) Resources:

-Police department

-Pride Center

-International Voices

-Casts

-School faculty

-Northampton Prison

7) Partners:

-Researchers & Professors-e.g. Dr.Bonnie

-Lehigh Valley Institutions-e.g. IceHouse, Northampton Prison

8) Activities:

-One-act documentary-style play

-After-play discussion

-Donation

9) Costs and expenses:

-Reservation fee on theatres

-Donations

 

2. Lessons learned from the Business Models of the Hospital from a TED talk.

1. We need to break down the timeline of carrying on the project and focus more on changes in details.
2. More training should be offered to our workers.
3. An ethical value system should be developed, such as a centric organization.
4. A delivery system should be developed and we should train people all over the world.
5. We should create ownership in the community to the problem and engage with people as a partner.
6. Efficiency is very important! A line of treatment could improve efficiency.
7. Never stop even if there are achievements. Always develop. Always make progress.
8. The product should have high quality and low cost for domestic people.
9. It’s better if the project solves unemployment (e.g. for women) as well.
10. Create competition for ourselves.

1. List five compelling takeaways from the Art of the Start.

1) The purpose of starting the project should depend on who you want to attract. It should not be making money.

2) The materials for pitching, such as slides, must be brief and clear.

3) The text font should be 30 pt. It also helps us to write fewer words.

4) 10 slides: Title, Problem, Solution, Business Model, Underlying Magic, Marketing and Sales, Competition, Team, Projections, Status and Timeline.

5) Hire better than yourself.

 

2. Articulate your value propositions for your diverse customer segments.

For women in jail who are the victims of mass incarceration, our Beyond Bars: Voices from Women Inside the Criminal, is a one-act documentary-style play that enables more people to be aware of the situation of mass incarceration in America’s social justice system. We will carry on this project and let the politicians know about our work. In this way, the rate of incarceration will decrease.

 

3. Discuss your Total Available Market and Total Addressable Market. List all your assumptions and hypothesis.

My Total Available Market is the women in jail and people in Lehigh Valley.

My Total Addressable Market is the politicians of this country in the future.

1. Summarize and report out on the results of the SKS exercise.

I will start to prepare for a further propaganda for our official performance and to arrange the appointment to the Northampton Prison. I will keep doing the rehearsals and contacting various resources. Meanwhile, I will stop face-to-face meetings and stop expecting just a small range of audiences. Our audience should not be limited to students and school faculties. My future aim is to perform in front of politicians in order to make a difference.

2. Develop a detailed Collaboration Plan for your team clearly articulating your Goals (Small g and Big G), Roles,Procedures, and Relationships

My personal goals are to have at least 100 audiences to our performances and to receive a decent amount of donation to the organization that tries to improve the bailing system of the U.S. My big goal is to reduce the mass incarceration rate of the U.S.

My role will be a sharper and resource investigator. My goals seem to be ambitious because decreasing the incarceration rate is almost impossible for a school team to achieve. But I will always maintain a positive mental attitude and expect that the politicians could see our efforts if we carry on this project. I will also develop external contacts and try to contact as many people and authorities as I can.

We obviously can’t gather or perform under the current situation, but we will keep up to date with the latest change. We have a Google Drive with resources, scripts and researches did by the former groups. We are still waiting for the reservation with the Black Box of Zoellner Art Center. After the official date of performance is released, we will work on flyers and propaganda. We will find the appropriate time for rehearsals.

My work doesn’t require IRB approvals. First, I’m in LVSIF so I don’t need to travel abroad. Secondly, though I will talk to female prisoners, it is not for researching purpose but for our final performance in the social justice theatre.

LVSIF team don’t need to do the presentations.

1. List ten things that make you feel human.
1) I’m able to comprehend at least one developed language system.
2) I’m able to control my impulse.
3) I’m able to think, talk and write rationally.
4) I have empathy for others.
5) I can design and create things, such as tools.
6) I love the arts.
7) I can learn knowledge from various fields.
8) I experience cultural differences.
9) I have self-esteem.
10) We respect each other.

2. Articulate your philosophy of engagement as it pertains to your work with the GSIF / LVSIF.
1) Why should I engage?
I’m concerned about the mass incarceration and the social justice system of the US. I want to lower the incarceration rate, so I must know the current situation and the reasons for it.

2) How must I engage?
I must write a new piece or an expansion of the current script. I must visit the Northampton Prison and have a talk with related women. I must make propaganda for our upcoming play.

3) With whom must I engage?
I must engage with Dr. Bonnie, teachers and students in Lehigh, our casts, the theater, and women prisoners in the Northampton Prison.

4) What kinds of challenges, opportunities, and approaches should I care about?
The casting might require more actresses. I might not be able to get in touch with resources, people or organizations we need, such as the chief police. I should care about the discussion about mass incarceration with Power Lehigh Valley. I should try to search for more resources and documentaries to create a more completed resource stock.

5) What might my epitaph read?
Here lies one who had a light footprint on the Earth.