Listening is Advocacy
By John Austin DeLozier, 2023 SHECP Intern with the Kanawha County Public Defender “What do lawyers even do?” I remember asking my dad...
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Jan 10, 2019
Building Hope from Inside
This past summer, I interned for Community Solutions, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in New York City. I was assigned to work...
Sep 20, 2018
Fighting the Battles to Win the War: Public Defenders Seek Justice, Fairness and Dignity for All
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...
Sep 6, 2018
Harlem Children’s Zone: A Summer Learning to Ask
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...
Aug 20, 2018
Refugees Are Not the Problem, We Are
65.5 million. One person out of every 113 people in the world. These statistics represent the number of people who have experienced...
Aug 17, 2018
Nothing like a Password: Trial and Resilience in the American Asylum System
“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the...
Aug 14, 2018
New Insight
“Ending toxic relationships since ‘08,” could very well be one of Judge David Matia’s most common sayings, ever since his Drug Court...
Feb 21, 2018
A Summer Joining Lives
I was one of two interns at REMERGE in Atlanta, Georgia, last summer. The REMERGE community sparked within me a deep love of...
Feb 13, 2018
Impoverished & Incarcerated: The Poor and the Criminal Justice System
“All are presumed innocent until proven guilty” is a phrase commonly employed when articulating the principles of the American criminal...
Feb 2, 2018
Why We Need Reform: The Baltimore Police
*Dannick Kenon’s internship with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore occurred alongside a developing investigation...
Jan 30, 2018
Seeing Beyond Labels: Recognizing the Humanity of Marginalized Individuals in Richmond, VA
Interning at the Health Brigade in Richmond, Virginia expanded my perspective of both poverty and charity by challenging me to see how...
Jan 17, 2018
Healing Homelessness
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...
Jan 17, 2018
When Trust Fails the Impoverished: The Real Epidemic
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...
Jan 5, 2018
Casting the First Stone: (In)Humanity in the Criminal Justice System
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...
Jan 4, 2018
Educating Educators: Battling Illiteracy and Intergenerational Poverty
George Orwell wrote, “when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others…the fact that it...
Jan 4, 2018
Battling Poverty with Rap: Collaborative Rule Building and Student Agency
I am not sure what I was expecting this summer when I arrived in Harlem to intern with Harlem Children Zone’s Writing Corps, but whatever...
Jan 3, 2018
Addiction: A Disease Costly to Society
Addiction is an issue which crosses racial, gender, socioeconomic, and other imaginable societal lines. During my time in Cleveland, I...
Jan 2, 2018
“I pay my debts, why can’t they?”
After a long morning at Staten Island’s Civil Courthouse, the attorney for the defense, my mentor, approached the plaintiff’s lawyer with...
Jan 2, 2018
Beautiful and Indispensable Diversity
The Americana World Community Center, a non-profit education outreach program in Louisville, KY, allowed me to contribute in educational...
Jan 1, 2018
Finding the Right Pieces: The Power of You
I have always known that there was something somewhere within me that has fueled my fire to pledge that I am going to do something, be...
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