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Serious amount of work. And its great! I've got a great job! Ok, so here is a quick overview of the things I do in the civil rights office. First of all i travel alot, so far just around anchorage. I visit DBE's which are disadvantaged businesses. DBE is a program set up by the feds and implemented by the municipality. Basically, small businesses -any small business can apply for DBE status as long as the owner is a minority or a women owned. What happens is when the fed gov has a project like to build a highway, they have prime contractors contracted for the job. Since its fed money they require primes to contract parts of the job they cant do like landscaping to DBE. Its great because we have DBEs who graduate from DBE status well on their feet. Another thing thats great is that there is an apprenticeship program for everyone who wants to go to school learn a trade and work at the same time. Its great. Its a good option. The campaign we've been setting up is in ten differant languages. In the Anchorage public school system 92 differant languages are spoken/or dialects.Ok right now we're brainstorming for commercial ideas and logos and webdesign. we have a DBE working on the web design. Plus a contractor for the commercial. we met with him today. It was great we were all artistic left brain users bouncing ideas around. No but wait-theres more. I'm editing the office newsletter-its killing me. also Im redesigning all the brochures. And I;m taking lead on two marketing/pr projects for DBEs. That means redesigning logo, making a logo from scratch, creating brochures , company portfolios, letterheads, etc etc. Its crazy. And theres more but yeah thats enough for now. I have soo much more to say but-im tired :) tschau!