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By Daphne Nwobike , 2025 SHECP Intern with Miriam's Kitchen My summer at Miriam’s Kitchen was remarkable and eye-opening. For two months, I worked with D.C.’s unhoused community in ways I never anticipated. Before my internship, I had never heard of Miriam’s Kitchen or paid much attention to D.C.’s housing crisis. My perception of the city was limited to its tourist attractions, political significance, and endless social activities. All I did was take from the city, unperturb

By Annabelle Sutliff , 2025 SHECP Intern with the Tharros Place On the 8-hour drive from Virginia to Savannah, Georgia, I remember my head circling with ideas about what the summer would look like. I was driving to Tharros Place, a non-profit that both provides care for teenage girls that have survived human trafficking, while also educating the Chatham County community about child sex trafficking. It’s a young organization, but has already supported many girls throughout the

By Katie Schadler , 2025 Policy & Nonprofit Leadership Intern with the National Alliance to End Homelessness and 2024 SHECP Summer...

On this episode of SHECP Talks , Abby Gilbert , SHECP's Internship Director, is joined by Lorena Bonet Velazquez , a 2021 SHECP Summer Intern and a 2023 graduate of Centre College. Lorena reflected on how her SHECP internship with Asylee Women Enterprise  (AWE) in Baltimore, MD and undergraduate experience as a health advocate in Central Kentucky shaped her career journey and led her to her current role as a Health Policy Advocate with the National Partnership for Women & F

By John Austin DeLozier, 2023 SHECP Intern with the Kanawha County Public Defender “What do lawyers even do?” I remember asking my dad...

In this SHECP Talks episode, Dora Kreitzer talks with two other Bucknell University students, Lissandro Alvarado and Da’Mirah Vinson to...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Mansi Tripathi, a 2022 graduate of Washington and Lee University talks about her 2019 internship with the...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Zionne McCrear, a senior at Birmingham-Southern College talks about her work with the Cleveland Clinic...

In this episode of SHECP Talks, Noah Cady, a first-class (or Senior to the rest of us) at the Virginia Military Institute, discusses his...

On June 16, 2022, Dr. Kelli Jarrell, a SHECP alum, spoke about her work as a Social Emergency Medicine fellow, her development of the...

We are very excited to announce a new Alumni-led initiative, SHECP’s Alumni Spotlights. Through recorded conversations, Alumni will be...

This past summer, I interned for Community Solutions, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in New York City. I was assigned to work...

I spent my summer working at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City. When I told people where I was going I...

As I got in the car to drive to Washington, D.C., for the SHECP Opening Conference, my dad gave me a hug and whispered, “Leave it better...

65.5 million. One person out of every 113 people in the world. These statistics represent the number of people who have experienced...

“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the...

“Ending toxic relationships since ‘08,” could very well be one of Judge David Matia’s most common sayings, ever since his Drug Court...

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...