Flint, MI—It started as a school project. Carrie Mattern, an English teacher at Carman-Ainsworth High School, gave her senior class an assignment: write a poem inspired by a mural in Flint. Students chose their murals and wrote their words. Some even composed song lyrics or recorded themselves reading their poem. Usually, projects like this never […]

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Carmen Nesbitt is a journalist with diverse experience in news reporting and feature writing. She wrote for Hour Detroit and SEEN Magazine before joining the Flint Beat news team as an education and public health reporter. When she isn’t writing, she’s probably failing at some Pinterest DIY art project or taking a nap with her old lady pug.
You can contact her at cnesbitt@flintbeat.com or at 810-293-7426.