Acknowledgements

   Special thanks to our research supervisor Dr. Karen Pennesi for trusting us with this project and taking us on as research interns this summer. Your endless support and guidance are never taken for granted and has offered us the opportunity to grow as students and researchers.  

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     To the Social Sciences USRI program and Department of Anthropology, thank you for offering this program to students and for committing to our growth and success. It has been a pleasure learning from countless mentors through professional development sessions and engaging in thoughtful conversations through the forums. Thank you for the opportunity to build our research skills and for offering us a valuable experience that we will take with us into our careers.  

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     To the students working on the project who came before us, thank you for laying the groundwork that made this project possible. We couldn’t have even begun to think about this project without the hours spent searching for videos and transcribing. In particular, Sydney Dawson, Mariela Magaña, Khalida Elsadati and Joanna Rossa did the hard work of building and organizing the original database of verbal art videos. Lastly, we also wanted to extend a special thank you to undergraduate student Ewere Agbamuche, it was a pleasure working with you this summer.  

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     All photos used for this project were collected from Media from Wix and the Unsplash features sourced directly from the Wix website. All images used on the website are either licensed under the Unsplash license or are preset royalty free images available to use from Wix’s Media Manager function.