SHECP Founding Executive Director Harlan Beckley and Distinguished Professors Release Book We are pleased to announce that Harlan Beckley, SHECP’s founding executive director and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Washington and Lee University (W&L), along …
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Caroline Gill graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, a minor in Poverty & Human Capability Studies, and a minor in Mathematics. She currently lives in New …
How Poverty Studies Can Define and Direct a Complete Education Read More
“Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity” posted a commentary today by SHECP executive director, Harlan R. Beckley, “Why Don’t Students Learn about Poverty?” Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity was launched in October 2007 by major U.S. foundations to foster …
Beckley commentary featured in “Spotlight” — “Why Don’t Students Learn About Poverty?” Read More
Isabella Martin writes a short story to help us understand the transition that youth from low-income rural families must make as they pursue higher education and career away from home. Bella, who will pursue a …
Isabella Martin Explores the Transition of Appalachian Youth into Higher Education Read More
Lindy Stevens, formerly a Teach for American participant and currently a law student at Washington and Lee, finds that No Child Left Behind needs to be reformed in order to achieve its laudable intentions. Please …
Lindy Stevens Explores the Impacts of No Child Left Behind Read More
Jake Struebing, currently attending Yale Law School, takes a realistic approach to law, public policy, and affordable housing. To view Struebing’s essay please click below: Struebing Poverty Capstone
By Joe Landry Washington and Lee University ’13 Instead of cutting aid to the poor, the president and Congress should focus on reforming costly tax expenditures. While we often hear critics decrying the redistributive effects …
To Reduce the Deficit, End Redistribution to the Rich Read More
Driving into DC the night before the first day of my internship was a surreal experience. I did not know whether I should be scared, excited, or nervous, but either way I was feeling all …
Go Find Out! How Joe Ciborowski Learned at the Public Defender Service Read More
By Kerriann Laubach As an undergraduate Environmental Studies major and self-proclaimed environmentalist, I have long heard of coal’s negative externalities. Mountaintop removal, fossil fuels, toxic runoff, habitat destruction, and climate change were all familiar evils …
Laubach Discovers Law is a Necessary Instrument for Limiting Environmental Injustice Read More
Hopscotch, I always thought, is a game played by innocent, laughing children on a playground that is safe from danger and pain. It is part of sweet childhood memories, times of happiness and lightheartedness with …
Birdrow Refines Her Views on Freedom and Deservedness Read More
SHECP Executive Director, Harlan Beckley, spoke at the Chautauqua Institution this summer on “Rethinking Poverty and Inequality: Changing Higher Education.” Beckley’s talk was part of a series on poverty sponsored by the Department of Religion. …
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Zachary offers deeper insight into mental health policy for vulnerable residents of Cleveland. Mental health care has long been an underserved area of medicine in the United States. However, the issue has become too large …
Caroline Gill, currently working for J.P. Morgan in New York, analyzes the regressive nature of tax expenditures and their effect on the U.S. budget for anti-poverty policies. She proposes reforms. Please click below to view …
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“The Affordable Care Act and Low-Income Americans” Timothy S. Jost Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law Washington and Lee University School of Law Delivered on Aug. 5, 2014 at the Virginia Military Institute for …
Leanne Stone, a member of Washington and Lee University’s Class of 2014, explored her interest in youth and education as an intern with the New York Harbor School in New York City, as part of …
W&L student Nicky Peacher helped a summer enrichment program at Bridges at St. Paul’s School in Baltimore as part of the 2013 Shepherd Internship Program.
I spent my summer as a Shepherd Intern in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s PACT Therapeutic Nursery. PACT serves Baltimore’s homeless families with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers. To say my experience in …
W&L student Sarah Rachal worked with children in PACT’s therapeutic nursery in Baltimore as part of the 2013 Shepherd Internship Program. Rachal is a member of the Class of 2016.
“My mommy comes back, she always comes back, she never will forget me! Why? Because she loves me!”
Washington and Lee University student Leah Gose supported the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, which works to lower the amount spent on healthcare and provide better care to Camden residents the unemployed with job training …
W&L Intern Helps Meet Healthcare Needs of Camden’s Poor Read More
Poverty minor Corinne Hemmersbach interned with PAVE Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of the 2013 Shepherd Internship Program. Rise and shine! 5:30 a.m. Trying not to wake my three roommates, I tiptoe around our …
Charter School Provides Great Learning Experience for W&L Intern Read More
