Allison Torres Burtka

Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

I hope the pen is mightier than the sword, because my skills lie in writing and editing. I would be pretty useless with a sword.

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Iffy about camping? Here's what a guided camping trip can offer.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Allison Torres Burtka

“Our family loves the outdoors. We just don’t like sleeping in it.” This is what I heard my 11-year-old daughter telling another girl on our camping trip, who had asked where else we’d been camping. The answer: Nowhere. My family had stayed in cabins before, and some of our vacations revolved around hiking, but we usually returned to beds and showers at night. It’s not that we were nervous about sleeping in a tent—we just hadn’t been motivated to buy all the gear and figure it out.
Da się schudnąć dzięki bieganiu. Te cztery zasady pomogą ci osiągnąć sukces

1 month ago | przegladsportowy.onet.pl | Allison Torres Burtka

Aby uzyskać redukcję, musisz być na deficycie kalorycznym. Oznacza to, że każdego dnia zażywasz mniej kalorii, niż spalasz. Ponieważ bieganie spala znaczną liczbę kalorii, ten rodzaj ćwiczeń może pomóc w osiągnięciu takiego deficytu. Dokładna liczba kalorii spalanych podczas biegania zależy od kilku czynników, takich jak waga i wiek, a także prędkość i czas trwania biegów. Przeczytaj też: Jesteś po 40 i chcesz mieć wymarzone ciało?
Resilient Neighborhoods: East Side seniors better equipped to age in place with home repair grants and education

2 months ago | arabamericannews.com | Allison Torres Burtka

By Allison Torres BurtkaSeniors in Detroit often face challenges maintaining older homes. The nonprofit organization U SNAP BAC (which stands for United Streets Networking And Planning: Building A Community), on Detroit’s East Side, created a program to help with home repairs and to address needs that it often sees among the seniors it serves.
Resilient Neighborhoods: East Side seniors better equipped to age in place with home repair grants and education

Feb 13, 2025 | latinodetroit.com | Allison Torres Burtka

By Allison Torres BurtkaSeniors in Detroit often face challenges maintaining older homes. The nonprofit organization U SNAP BAC (which stands for United Streets Networking And Planning: Building A Community), on Detroit’s East Side, created a program to help with home repairs and to address needs that it often sees among the seniors it serves.
Up Close with Elephants and Tea Plants in Sri Lanka

Feb 12, 2025 | goworldtravel.com | Allison Torres Burtka

I’m in a souped-up safari SUV in a Sri Lankan national park, and a couple of car lengths away, a female elephant and her baby are pulling plants from the ground and eating them. I’m close enough to hear them chewing. This was on my bucket list: seeing elephants in their natural habitat. But I had no idea how amazing it would be to sit quietly and watch them go about their day.
Collaboration gets Dearborn air quality data to people who need it

Jan 31, 2025 | modeldmedia.com | Allison Torres Burtka

In Dearborn, industrial facilities, trucking routes, schools, and homes are in close proximity, and air quality varies significantly over time and from neighborhood to neighborhood. To address public health concerns, the City of Dearborn launched an air quality monitoring program in February 2024 through the MiNextCities program, partnering with JustAir. It includes 10 monitors distributed across the city and gives residents and others access to real-time air quality data.
Collaboration gets Dearborn air quality data to people who need it

Jan 31, 2025 | secondwavemedia.com | Allison Torres Burtka

In Dearborn, industrial facilities, trucking routes, schools, and homes are in close proximity, and air quality varies significantly over time and from neighborhood to neighborhood. To address public health concerns, the City of Dearborn launched an air quality monitoring program in February 2024 through the MiNextCities program, partnering with JustAir. It includes 10 monitors distributed across the city and gives residents and others access to real-time air quality data.
Large Muscle Group Movements During Sleep Evolve as People Age

Jan 28, 2025 | neurologyadvisor.com | Allison Torres Burtka

Large muscle group movements during sleep are more frequent among older adults than younger people, but become shorter in duration over time, according to study findings published recently in the Journal of Sleep Research. Recent research has demonstrated that large muscle group movements may have clinical utility among individuals with sleep disorders, as they are linked to changes in sleep activity.
Education bill tracker: What did Indiana lawmakers file by the legislative session’s first week?

Jan 10, 2025 | chalkbeat.org | Aleksandra Appleton |Julian Shen-Berro |Ariel Gilreath |Allison Torres Burtka

The 2025 legislative session is likely to bring big changes to Indiana schools, from how they receive funding, to what students learn and how teachers teach. As part of our coverage this year, Chalkbeat Indiana is tracking this year’s biggest education bills as they move through the statehouse. Below are bills that would make substantial changes to policies affecting Indiana students and teachers.
Las amenazas de deportación de Trump pesan sobre los grupos que ofrecen ayuda con la FAFSA

Jan 10, 2025 | chalkbeat.org | Ariel Gilreath |Julian Shen-Berro |Allison Torres Burtka |Ann Schimke

Read in English. Este artículo sobre ayuda financiera fue producido por The Hechinger Report, una organización de noticias independiente sin fines de lucro centrada en la desigualdad y la innovación en la educación. Suscríbete a su boletín. Una gran parte del trabajo de Elizabeth House es alentar a los estudiantes a completar la Solicitud Gratuita de Ayuda Federal para Estudiantes, o FAFSA, por sus siglas en inglés.

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Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka

11 Oct 24

I wrote about this nonprofit that's helping students at HBCUs and Hispanic- and Indigenous-serving institutions navigate the process of applying to med school.

Stanford Social Innovation Review @SSIReview

“We have to diversify medicine in a way to make it look more like our patient population, but no one tells you how to do that.”—Sydney Labat MD, cofounder @the15whitecoats Read how the #nonprofit is preparing underrepresented students for medical school. https://t.co/dwOkYstpjS

Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka

11 Oct 24

RT @SSIReview: “We have to diversify medicine in a way to make it look more like our patient population, but no one tells you how to do tha…

Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka

15 Apr 24

Edna Kiplagat is 44 years old!