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Shepherd Consortium Elects New Officers and Council Members
Shepherd Consortium Elects New Officers and Council Members and Governing Board Chair Appoints Committee Chairs The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty elected new officers, members of the Governing Board, and at-large representatives to its [...]
Speakers Announced for Symposium on Criminal Justice, Poverty, and Race
Lexington, VA -- Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University; James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law at Yale University; and Robin Steinberg, Director of the Bronx Defenders, will be the principal speakers [...]
Millsaps College Selected as SHECP Academic Home; Rolph Named Academic Director
Millsaps College Selected as SHECP Academic Home; Rolph Named Academic Director Following a competitive application process, Millsaps College has been selected as the new academic home of the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP). [...]
Poverty Studies Students will Prepare for Internships at Marymount University
Poverty Studies Students to Prepare for Summer Internships at Marymount University. Lexington, VA -- The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) announced today a record group of one-hundred twenty (120) students have been selected to serve [...]
SHECP is excited to announce that two work-study students, Balen and Alex, will be joining our team this year! To learn more about them and the rest of our staff, visit www.shepherdconsortium.org/about-schep/staff/
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/18/upshot/black-white-wealth-gap-perceptions.html?mabReward=C...
Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (but Don’t Know It)
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Americans, and higher-income whites in particular, vastly overestimate progress toward economic equality between blacks and whites."Society has an abundance of labels it attaches to different populations, and homeless individuals are not spared," writes Bri Karpowich, W&L '20. Read about her internship with the Bowery Residents' Committee in New York this past summer, www.shepherdconsortium.org/he-too-is-a-son/
James Forman, a featured speaker at SHECP's 2017 Symposium, writes an op-ed, about mass incarceration and society's views about people after they are released from prison.
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Opinion | A Prison Sentence Ends. But the Stigma Doesn’t.
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Harvard’s rejection of Michelle Jones, a former convict, reveals the lie we are telling ourselves about the possibility of redemption.
"Society has an abundance of labels it attaches to different populations, and homeless individuals are not spared," writes Bri Karpowich, W&L '20. Read about her internship with the Bowery Residents' Committee in New York this past summer, www.shepherdconsortium.org/he-too-is-a-son/
"Brian mostly gardens because he needs and wants the food security in the winter, and hopes to stay busy while he overcomes a drug addiction," writes Beka Bruner, Centre College, about her internship this summer. read more, www.shepherdconsortium.org/just-food-community-gardens/
More Than Just Food: Community Gardens - Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
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J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, a personal account of growing up poor and white in Appalachia, has been a key reference point in the national conversation about rural poverty since the pre...2017 SHECP Intern Video
Our interns had an incredible summer... Here is a just a small sample of the things they did!
Student Testimonials
This opportunity truly changed my outlook on addiction and poverty in society. I have seen poverty abroad and I have seen poverty in America, but this internship really helped me look at the reasons for how people could become entrenched in a cycle of poverty.
During my time at Youth Force, I truly understood the impacts of grassroots campaigns. In a room of teenagers, I was standing around those who are effectively pressuring state government to change their stances on many vital issues.
My summer as a Shepherd Intern was a great opportunity for me to live out Notre Dame’s poverty studies minor; I learned so much about health insurance and health access in low-income communities and how I hope to practice medicine in the future.
Working with LIFT-Philadelphia personalized the issues of poverty and inequality for me. I couldn’t have fully learned the facts of these issues without having met some of the people who live them every day. Knowing their stories has made me determined to make a difference.
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