Blog 5-One Love Event

Another major event that I helped with was a partnered event between the Browns and One Love. This event took place in the browns stadium. This was a free event for high school football coaches and players in Cleveland and its surrounding areas. The basis of this event was healthy relationships, domestic violence, and how to help others with these types of issues. Hannah Lee, one of my mentors for the project, organized this event. For this event, I first helped set up the event along with Zach Blase, one of the people I have worked with during this internship. We set up tables with pens and lanyards for attendees; we brought up decorations including standing browns signs, and helped with other tasks in turning this room into an area suitable for a seminar type of event. Setting up for this event also involved my first trip to the Browns CrossCountry Mortgage Campus in Berea. Zach and I went there to look for extra lanyards in the storage warehouse for the event (more details about Berea Campus in specific blog post about my time in Berea). As the event started, Zach and I were in charge of running the front desk of the event. Our tasks included greeting the attendees, and having them sign a form before entering. It was great to see different people from various parts of Ohio all coming together for such an event. I even got to see Mr. Charles Woolridge, former Hawken coach and teacher who I know very well, who came to this event. Once the speakers started, I got to sit and watch. This event was a lot different than I thought it was going to be. Instead of taking a straightforward approach towards addressing issues about relationships and domestic violence, the people from One Love used videos, as well as a discussion format to engage the attendees, and make sure their message was understood. They asked many discussion questions to the audience, played videos and had people identify different parts of the video, and more to make sure people understood the message. Overall, it was great to see/be a part of this event. This gave me an inside look at how the Browns impact the community in different ways throughout the offseason


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  1. BrandtMay 26, 2023 at 8:35 AM

    Good look at how this type of event comes together. Lots of pieces and parts have to be put in place to pull this together, especially involving all of the different people with their own individaul tasks. Nice that you got to be a part of it.

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