Reflection 1
Originally, when doing research and creating our website, my target audience was the residents of Cahokia. I’m now realizing that water equity is an issue many people face in this area, including Cahokia residents. I want my target audience to be anyone who could benefit from what my group has curated. My page on the website was about grassroots organizations and non-profit organizations that help and support residents in Cahokia and low-income areas. Instead of targeting my research solely at Cahokia residents, I want to look at a bigger spectrum and curate my research and work for low-income residents in the Southern IL area. Places such as Belleville, East St. Louis, O’Fallon, Collinsville, Fairview Heights, Alton, etc. The list of organizations that I curated can help with other issues, not only the water equity crisis. To revise my work, I will research other grassroots organizations in the area and get information on their mission, benefits, and employees. If possible, I want to reach out to employees of the grassroots orgs and nonprofits to get a firsthand account of what they do and how they have helped people in the past. For secondary sources, I will look at news articles, newspapers, and websites to compare the issues the different communities are going through and also use those sources to gather information so I can analyze what organizations can best benefit residents of each community. Also, using our community partners as a source for future work, and this semester. Looking at what our community partners do and how they benefit and help the community and using insight from our partners to see which step would be best to take with our website and work this semester. Also, getting a second opinion from our partners can help revise work and shed light on things we didn’t include or didn’t think about.