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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...

During my time in Burlington, Vermont this summer I learned how to be uncomfortable. As a white, American-born woman pursuing a college...

The time has come to be honest: ‘privilege’ is a buzzword. I cannot count the instances in which I’ve thrown the term out, whether in...

Anna’s Place NOLA, a non-profit organization, seeks to improve the lives of citizens living in the Tréme/7th ward of New Orleans. This...

“I am really sorry to ask these questions. I won’t pretend to know how difficult it must be to answer them,” I reached across the table...

As we drive down West Hill Street I count the number of foreclosed properties we pass, the boarded-up windows and doors marked with...

Working at Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC), a homeless outreach non-profit, in New York City this summer elicited two different...

With blooming potted vegetables at my feet, I stood in front of Brian at Beacon Apartments, a permanent housing site for the formerly...

This summer I interned at the Bowery Residents Committee in New York City. Every morning I would wake up at 4:30, throw on my jeans and...

Children yearn to feel empowered, a theory I developed and observed during the summer of 2017.  From June 5 to July 28, I interned at...

I walked into the doors of the Cone Health Regional Center for Infectious Disease in Greensboro, North Carolina basically clueless. I...

“The biggest hurdle for these families was finding affordable, high quality food without jumping through enormous obstacles” writes...

“Medical treatment is not enough; we must also consider how to relieve a patient’s psychosocial situation to improve and sustain their...

The idea of the began with Reverend Ralph W. Beiting, a Roman Catholic priest born and raised in northern Kentucky. He was the oldest of...