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By Rebecca Dunn, Washington and Lee University (2016) Ms. Dunn is a Sociology major and a Poverty and Human Capability Studies minor. She...

By Leah Travis Ms. Travis is a junior sociology major anticipating opportunities in undergraduate and graduate school to expand on what...

By Katja Kleine Ms. Kleine is a Teach for America high school math teacher and is working towards a Master’s Degree in Education at Johns...

By Kate Donnelly Ms. Donnelly works for Raffa, P.C., a public accounting firm specializing in nonprofits.  She is a 2011 graduate of...

By Cabell Willis Cabell Willis is a 2014 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in...

By Matt Germaine Matt interned at the Atlanta Community Food Bank the summer before his senior year at The College of Wooster.  He is a...

By Rachel Tullio Ms. Tullio  is serving at ARTEZ (Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone) working on several community development...

Claiborne Taylor works with Teach For America alumni in Philadelphia.  He taught 4th grade in Houston, Texas through Teach For America;...

By Morgan Hobbs Ms. Hobbs works at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. as a Research Assistant. She is a 2015 graduate of...

By Paige Coomer Ms. Commer attends Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she serves on the executive board for the Public...

Kelly with a group of children in DC after completing the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s curriculum on nutrition and physical...

By Allison Behrndt Ms. Allison Behrndt is currently a MS Candidate (2015) in Medical Physiology at Case Western Reserve University. She...

By Vanessa J. Ndege Ms. Ndege is currently a Housing Services Specialist in the Housing Stabilization Department- Emergency Services...

By Katherine H. LeMasters Ms. LeMasters is researching the pregnancy experiences of Roma women in Romania through the Edwin A. Morris ’26...

By Jake Elijah Struebing, JD Candidate, Yale University School of Law. Mr. Struebing graduated from Washington and Lee University (2014)...

By Kelsey Hoffman, Lynchburg College (2015);  MSW Candidate (2017), Virginia Commonwealth University I woke up to the ringing of my too...

By Molly Snell-Larch, AmeriCorps Member Service Fellow, LIFT (DC).  Ms Snell-Larch is a 2015 Graduate of the College of Wooster and a...

By Eleanor Paige Bacon As an intern at HomeAgain in Richmond, Virginia, a non-profit organization that provides transitional and...

By Jill Waity, Ph.D. When I first began college at Washington and Lee University, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I had always done...

In the spring of 2014, I applied for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Internship Program, not knowing how valuable it...