Knowing Your Neighbors: Reflections on How to Build Diverse Small Business Communities
During my time in Burlington, Vermont this summer I learned how to be uncomfortable. As a white, American-born woman pursuing a college...
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- Dec 28, 2017
Privilege and Inequality: Where Theory Meets Reality
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...
- Dec 26, 2017
Creating Opportunities for Children in New Orleans
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...
- Dec 8, 2017
The Dehumanizing Nature of the Immigration System: More Than Names on a File
“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...
- Nov 28, 2017
Traversing the 9th Street Divide: Educational Enrichment for the Children of Louisville
As we drive down West Hill Street I count the number of foreclosed properties we pass, the boarded-up windows and doors marked with...
- Sep 18, 2017
He Too is a Son
Working at Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC), a homeless outreach non-profit, in New York City this summer elicited two different...
- Sep 13, 2017
More Than Just Food: Community Gardens
With blooming potted vegetables at my feet, I stood in front of Brian at Beacon Apartments, a permanent housing site for the formerly...
- Sep 5, 2017
Wealth Inequality in the Big Apple
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...
- Sep 4, 2017
The Power of Empowerment: Exploring My Work with Agape Youth and Family Center
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...
- Aug 28, 2017
Integrative Healthcare: How HIV Taught Me about Medicine, Patients, and Poverty
I walked into the doors of the Cone Health Regional Center for Infectious Disease in Greensboro, North Carolina basically clueless. I...
- Feb 16, 2017
In the Gardens and Markets of Atlanta
“The biggest hurdle for these families was finding affordable, high quality food without jumping through enormous obstacles” writes...
- Jan 26, 2017
Holistic Healthcare Transcends Medicine
“Medical treatment is not enough; we must also consider how to relieve a patient’s psychosocial situation to improve and sustain their...
- Jan 25, 2017
What I Learned about Poverty in Eastern Kentucky and How it can be Reduced
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...
- Jan 12, 2017
How Poverty Perpetuates Domestic Violence
The connection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and poverty isn’t obvious. In fact, it took me the majority of the summer to...
- Jan 11, 2017
UpLIFTing: Emphasizing Individuality and Dignity in Washington, DC.
(LIFT is a national anti-poverty non-profit devoted to empowering families to break the cycle of poverty. This summer I was a Community...
- Jan 10, 2017
My Future Fighting Poverty
“The Patch taught me that every effort to fight poverty successfully should promote holistic development, trust, and new experiences”...
- Jan 10, 2017
Children in Poverty Can Thrive!
I interned this summer with the Kanawha County Extension Office in West Virginia. I worked with the 4-H Positive Youth Development...
- Jan 3, 2017
Building Rapport: A Personal Approach to Homelessness in NYC
The office of the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) is in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, and their clients are in the elevators,...
- Dec 21, 2016
Privilege’s Place in Poverty Alleviation: What We Lose When Success Looks like I Do
“We, those of us with privilege, must take this challenge to define our roles, but we must keep our eyes and ears open” writes Iglitzin....
- Nov 9, 2016
Holistic Criminal Defense: The Gratification It Can Bring
“I want to be able to empower persons who may have given up and strengthen their neighborhoods where poverty is rampant.” – Lindsey Allen...
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