The Moses House A Cultural Center for Social Change

On August 14, 2009, the Moses House was awarded the 2009 Partner of the Summer Award from the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Community Learning Center at Sulphur Springs Elementary!

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Today we are speaking with Lance Arney who is a Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Anthropology and Instructor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, where he is also Program Assistant in the Office of Community Engagement. In his spare time, Lance volunteers as Executive Director of the Moses House, a nonprofit youth arts activist organization in Tampa, Florida, and as Media and Educational Adviser to Hood Success, a new nonprofit organization that promotes positive media representation of people overcoming adversity in “da hood.”

Lance, an educational activist anthropologist, is interested in constructing community activist projects with urban youth who are racial/ethnic minorities and who live in situations of poverty. As a researcher, he has devoted the last six years of his life to studying how such populations are marginalized and excluded by the societies in which they live and what they can do to resist marginalization and transform their own lives and communities. As an activist, Lance is working with young African Americans in Tampa to create social activist projects that combine art and cultural expression, social justice education, critical pedagogy, and participatory action research in order to produce transformative knowledge that can guide positive social change.