Posted on Jul 06 2011
by Annie Fedorowicz
Follow Annie Fedorowicz, a MCH-Epi MPH student, as she blogs about her 8-week field experience this summer as a data collection intern for the Mobile Youth Survey. She will be sharing her experiences recruiting participants and administering surveys to young people ages 10 to 18 in Alabama's Mobile and Prichard neighborhoods.
Annie has traveled extensively abroad and in the US and reports that the Mobile is unlike any place she has ever visited. She is working with economically and socially challenged youth to extend her knowledge about research methods and the experiences of impoverished youth. During her first week of trying to conduct surveys with adolescent participants in the impoverished “Snug Harbor” neighborhood, she experienced gratitude, fear, exhaustion, and sadness. Understanding the profound cultural shift she has, and will be, experiencing, Annie started a blog and invites all interested readers to share her journey in Mobile.
