Home is a simple word, but the experience of finding home is personal, complex, and always evolving.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters invites people across Wisconsin to join our Finding Home series and explore what it means to find home through the lenses of science, arts, history, literature, and civil discourse.
In every region of the state, people shape their sense of home through cultural expression, ecological knowledge, and community care. Many are also noticing changes in the places they know best, from shifting seasons to new pressures on land, housing, and water. Finding Home programs explore how people respond with creativity, stewardship, and resilience.
At its core, Finding Home brings people with different perspectives together with the goal of deepening understanding and identifying shared values and common ground
This Finding Home success story features Christal West of Milwaukee. Christal serves as the Housing and Economic Development Chair for Amani United, where she works to support neighborhood revitalization through housing development, advocate for people experiencing homelessness, and promote recycling and environmental stewardship in the Amani neighborhood.
For Christal, home is about using what you have learned and experienced to serve others.
