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By John Austin DeLozier, 2023 SHECP Intern with the Kanawha County Public Defender “What do lawyers even do?” I remember asking my dad...

In this SHECP Talks episode, Dora Kreitzer talks with two other Bucknell University students, Lissandro Alvarado and Da’Mirah Vinson to...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Mansi Tripathi, a 2022 graduate of Washington and Lee University talks about her 2019 internship with the...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Zionne McCrear, a senior at Birmingham-Southern College talks about her work with the Cleveland Clinic...

In this episode of SHECP Talks, Noah Cady, a first-class (or Senior to the rest of us) at the Virginia Military Institute, discusses his...

On June 16, 2022, Dr. Kelli Jarrell, a SHECP alum, spoke about her work as a Social Emergency Medicine fellow, her development of the...

We are very excited to announce a new Alumni-led initiative, SHECP’s Alumni Spotlights. Through recorded conversations, Alumni will be...

This past summer, I interned for Community Solutions, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in New York City. I was assigned to work...

I spent my summer working at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City. When I told people where I was going I...

As I got in the car to drive to Washington, D.C., for the SHECP Opening Conference, my dad gave me a hug and whispered, “Leave it better...

65.5 million. One person out of every 113 people in the world. These statistics represent the number of people who have experienced...

“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the...

“Ending toxic relationships since ‘08,” could very well be one of Judge David Matia’s most common sayings, ever since his Drug Court...

I was one of two interns at REMERGE in Atlanta, Georgia, last summer. The REMERGE community sparked within me a deep love of...

“All are presumed innocent until proven guilty” is a phrase commonly employed when articulating the principles of the American criminal...

*Dannick Kenon’s internship with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore occurred alongside a developing investigation...

Interning at the Health Brigade in Richmond, Virginia expanded my perspective of both poverty and charity by challenging me to see how...

My internship at Miriam’s Kitchen (MK) was an experience that I’m still processing. When I arrived, it wasn’t exactly like I thought it...

As I drive down the desolate Kentucky roads in the early summer of 2017 there is no whisper on the radio of an opioid epidemic or of...

When I first walked into D.C.’s Central Detention Facility, I could hardly contain my excitement. I could not wait to show our client the...