What I Learned in the City of Hope
By Ash Smith, University of Notre Dame (2017). Driving into Manchester, Kentucky, I read a roadside billboard: “City of Hope.” Here lies...
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Dec 31, 2015
A Newfound Optimism: The Role of Economic Development in the Rebirth of Camden
By Ram Raval, Washington and Lee University (2018) Interestingly enough, one of the most memorable experiences I encountered while...
Dec 31, 2015
Little by Little
By Maneesha Julakanti, Baylor University 2017 “Don’t ever leave me. Don’t you ever leave me!” she cried, her little body clinging to my...
Dec 30, 2015
Building Relationships and Implementing Data-Driven Measures
By Michael Sullivan, Washington and Lee University (2018) I remember how many people looked at me in disbelief when I told them I would...
Dec 30, 2015
Camden Healthcare: Challenging Stereotypes
By Tierney Wolgemuth, Washington and Lee University (2016) A lot of words come to mind when people mention Camden, New Jersey. Vibrant,...
Dec 28, 2015
Appreciating Privilege
By C.J. Tighe, John Carroll University (2016) For 8 weeks this past summer, I gratefully accepted an offer to intern for the Shepherd...
Dec 21, 2015
Reflections on Louisville Homelessness
By Jacqueline Carson Jacqueline Carson is a senior pre-medical student at Washington and Lee majoring in Biology and Economics and...
Oct 26, 2015
Nutrition and Community: The Keys to Health in Camden
By Sneha Modi, University of Notre Dame (2016) I had the opportunity last summer to intern with The Food Trust, a non-profit that...
Oct 7, 2015
Connections between Mental Health and Poverty
By Akiksha Chatterji, College of Wooster (2017) The summer has been an intense to say the least. Frontline Service, in Cleveland, Ohio,...
Oct 6, 2015
Filling My Loving Cup
By Kaeleigh E. Gale, Berea College (2016) When I was accepted into the Shepherd Poverty Consortium, I was excited to be able to work...
Oct 5, 2015
The Paradigm Shift of a Summer: Breaking My Preconceived Notions of Poverty
By Samuel Hudson, Virginia Military Institute (2017) The Shepherd Internship seeks to provide students who study poverty with a new...
Oct 1, 2015
Hope We Must, Persevere We Will
By Emma Jackson, Centre College (2018) There I was: standing in my office, the walls papered with photographs and interview transcripts,...
Sep 28, 2015
What Happens when Help is Gone?
By Batsheva Honig, Washington and Lee University (2017) The train stops at 56th Street station. I linger a moment making sure that I am...
Sep 23, 2015
11 Million Waiting for Social Change
By Martha Citlaly Mora Hernandez, Elon University (2016) This summer I interned in American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in...
Sep 22, 2015
Growing a Healthier Nation
By Lauren Scott, Elon University (2017) The community that I worked in this summer, Atlanta, lacks the proper structure to sustain the...
Sep 18, 2015
“Rebuilding the World within Clarkston, GA”
By Elena Diller, Washington and Lee University (2017) I sit in the passenger seat of a 15-person van, listening to 90’s rap music on a...
Sep 15, 2015
The American Dream: Whose Dream is it Anyway?
By Katherine Rose Johnson, Middlebury College (2018) “tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine” — Mary Oliver, Wild...
Sep 11, 2015
Room 209
By Jaziah Masters, Baylor University (2017) This room has special meaning for me. This past summer, room 209 became my classroom, a...
Sep 11, 2015
Engendering Confidence for Leadership in Community Reduces Poverty
By Zoe Stein, Washington and Lee University (2017) This summer I served as a mentor for Monster Slayers, a summer program targeting...
Sep 8, 2015
Demanding Education as Opportunity When Prison is Viewed as a Home
By Emma Swabb, Washington and Lee University (2017) It was the first Wednesday of the mandatory summer program at Washington Jesuit...
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