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Metro Transit views public transportation as a community asset with the power to reduce inequality and increase equity through enhanced mobility.

Seeking to learn more about the importance of transit in people鈥檚 lives, Metro Transit collaborated with students in Mike Klein鈥檚 Leadership for Social Justice course via the Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP). This particular partnership was also affiliated with SCP Arts, an SCP program that collaborates with local artists to translate project findings into artwork, lending itself to both a written and visual exploration of the importance of transit in people鈥檚 lives.

Klein鈥檚 course 鈥渋s grounded in the stories of people facing injustice and oppression,鈥� and encourages students 鈥渢o see empathetically (if imperfectly) from that perspective鈥� (). Participating students applied a social justice methodology as they documented the stories of transit riders and their relationships with public transit. Following the written portion of the course, SCP Artist-in-Residence Sarah Nelson collaborated with students to create a public art piece. 鈥淪tudents discovered that transformation was a common theme underlying transit riders鈥� stories,鈥� (), and together with Nelson decided the monarch butterfly鈥檚 life cycle represented this transformation.

Upon the project鈥檚 completion, Klein compiled student narratives alongside Nelson鈥檚 artwork in a  titled Transit Transformations (Leadership for Social Justice). The book 鈥減resents individual stories of people connected to transit in order to narrate a larger collective story about the role of transit in sustainable communities and social justice鈥� (Transit Transformations). Sarah Nelson鈥檚 illustrations, depicting the stages of a monarch butterfly life cycle, were displayed on a Metro Transit light rail train car in an effort to engage the broader public with these real-life narratives. 

Read the full story of the partnership.