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When I was 22 years old I found myself off the coast of Somalia, specifically Mogadishu, on my first ship, USS Harlan County (LST 1196),...

When Ash Smith selected the University of Notre Dame for her undergraduate education, she knew what she was choosing. “I really wanted to...

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...

Lexington, Virginia — Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) has earned the Platinum GuideStar Nonprofit Profile Seal of...

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

Lexington, VA — The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest and twenty-fifth member,...

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...

“Having devoted my life to helping people rise above adversity and working in and around higher education the mission simply called to...

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...

George Orwell wrote, “when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others…the fact that it...

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...

Addiction is an issue which crosses racial, gender, socioeconomic, and other imaginable societal lines.  During my time in Cleveland, I...

After a long morning at Staten Island’s Civil Courthouse, the attorney for the defense, my mentor, approached the plaintiff’s lawyer with...

The Americana World Community Center, a non-profit education outreach program in Louisville, KY, allowed me to contribute in educational...

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...

I began this internship eager to see things from a different lens after being somewhat unsatisfied with results I observed while offering...