MEGAN ANNE HEYZA, FOUNDER- DIRECTOR
Megan Heyza is a resident of Flint, MI. She started a grassroots initiative called The Porch Project with a focus on impacting over studied and underserved communities. She is a people focused advocate who utilizes authentic outreach and challenges the idea of community engagement as a whole through developing best practices to inclusiveness and community engaged research. She aims to change the way that data is collected in urban areas while bridging the gap between community and research based organizations. This is accomplished by utilizing a bottom-up approach to research, where research is not just done in a community but with the community.
