Overcoming the Barriers of Poverty
By Whitney Hacker Ms. Hacker currently lives in the Greater Cincinnati region and works for DAV (Disabled American Veterans) at its...
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Feb 3, 2016
Poverty Studies and Finance: A Contradiction?
By Jaclyn Smith Ms. Smith works in the investment management industry, previously in institutional business development for a public...
Feb 2, 2016
A Framework for “Higher Thinking”: My Experience with the Shepherd Poverty Program
By Laura Berry Ms. Berry currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and works for Hunton & Williams, LLP in their pro bono partnership...
Feb 1, 2016
On Celebrating Discomfort
By Casey Morrison Ms. Morrison is a Public Health major at Elon University with minors in Poverty Studies and Anthropology. She is...
Feb 1, 2016
Indefensible: The State Of Indigent Defense In The Era of Mass Incarceration
by Christopher Stella Mr. Stella is a second year law student, pursuing his Juris Doctor at Elon University School of Law with an...
Feb 1, 2016
Be a Champion of Liberty
By Annie Zhang Ms. Zhang is a first year law student at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. In 2013, she graduated with a...
Jan 29, 2016
Capability and Collective Action
By Joseph Roger Landry The Shepherd Poverty Program is taking on the issue of our time. The Program presents college students with an...
Jan 29, 2016
Learning from True Immersion
By Margaret Hutchison Ms. Hutchison is currently a Resident Minister at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. She...
Jan 28, 2016
From Poverty 101 to Perspectives and Skills
By Christina Lawrence Ms Lawrence is currently pursuing her MBA from Columbia University and plans to graduate in May 2017. After...
Jan 25, 2016
A Journey to Social Work: the connection between mental health and poverty
By Ashley Trice. Ms. Trice is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has has a private practice working with adolescents and adults...
Jan 25, 2016
How The Shepherd Program Shaped My Medical Career
By Kelli Jarrell Ms. Jarrell is completing her fourth and final year at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. She...
Jan 24, 2016
How Poverty Studies Helped Me Realize the Scope of Healthcare Needs in America
By Grace Barnett Ms. Barnett attended the Medical University of South Carolina where she earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy. She...
Jan 23, 2016
Lasting Lessons from the Delta
By Katie Jarrell Ms. Jarrell is currently a second-year pharmacy student at West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. Upon graduation...
Jan 22, 2016
Finding Career Success with a Passion for Civic Service
By Ellen Stauffer Ms. Stauffer is the Assistant Director of Development, Special Events, for the research and advocacy non-profit...
Jan 21, 2016
Choice and Capability
By Camie Carlock Ms. Carlock graduated in 2013 from Washington and Lee University, where she majored in Politics and minored in Poverty &...
Jan 21, 2016
From Passion for Justice to Lawyering for the Justice Department
By Alice Shih LaCour Ms. Shih LaCour is a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. She graduated with a degree in Economics and...
Jan 20, 2016
An Education of High Expectations
By Daniel F. Murray Mr. Murray (Washington and Lee University ’13) majored in English and minored in Poverty and Human Capability...
Jan 20, 2016
A Transformed Worldview
By Crighton Allen Mr. Allen is an associate with the Atlanta law firm Hall Booth Smith, P.C. where he assists in the defense of...
Jan 19, 2016
True Value in Poverty Education
By Theresa Schmidt Ms. Schmidt earned her Bachelor’s of Social Work from Niagara University in 2014. During this time she had one of the...
Jan 19, 2016
Translating Knowledge into Practice
By Alvin G. Thomas Mr. Thomas is a second-year Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) student at the Johns Hopkins University...
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