Intern Reflection: Community Safety Committee Reflection
During the Community Safety Committee meeting, I truly felt inspired by all of the points that everyone brought up. I have never really experienced a group of many community leaders coming together to discuss different issues in the city and how to address those issues to ensure connection and safety within the community. I truly believe that coming together and working alongside one another to bring about change is truly impactful and necessary in order to fully understand the next steps one should take to better the safety and peace in the community.
It was a very peaceful moment that brought a lot of hope for me, and made me truly appreciate the amazing work that everyone has done within society and within the different organizations in Chicago. It is surprising that this does not happen in a lot of places. I have never really seen people come together to actually address issues; usually addressing issues, at least from many areas, is given to the people in power as their responsibility. But that is not the case.
One does not have to be in power to make a change, and one does not have to have political authority to address the problems within society. This meeting was such an amazing experience and I truly hope that more communities are able to have these important conversations that can help bring people together in a world that is so broken, where us as individuals can help pick up the pieces one by one in order to make a change.
