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By Ash Smith, University of Notre Dame (2017). Driving into Manchester, Kentucky, I read a roadside billboard: “City of Hope.” Here lies...

By Ram Raval, Washington and Lee University (2018) Interestingly enough, one of the most memorable experiences I encountered while...

By Maneesha Julakanti, Baylor University 2017 “Don’t ever leave me. Don’t you ever leave me!” she cried, her little body clinging to my...

By Michael Sullivan, Washington and Lee University (2018) I remember how many people looked at me in disbelief when I told them I would...

By Tierney Wolgemuth, Washington and Lee University (2016) A lot of words come to mind when people mention Camden, New Jersey. Vibrant,...

By C.J. Tighe, John Carroll University (2016) For 8 weeks this past summer, I gratefully accepted an offer to intern for the Shepherd...

By Jacqueline Carson Jacqueline Carson is a senior pre-medical student at Washington and Lee majoring in Biology and Economics and...

By Sneha Modi, University of Notre Dame (2016) I had the opportunity last summer to intern with The Food Trust, a non-profit that...

By Akiksha Chatterji, College of Wooster (2017) The summer has been an intense to say the least. Frontline Service, in Cleveland, Ohio,...

By Kaeleigh E. Gale, Berea College (2016) When I was accepted into the Shepherd Poverty Consortium, I was excited to be able to work...

By Samuel Hudson, Virginia Military Institute (2017) The Shepherd Internship seeks to provide students who study poverty with a new...

By Emma Jackson, Centre College (2018) There I was: standing in my office, the walls papered with photographs and interview transcripts,...

By Batsheva Honig, Washington and Lee University (2017) The train stops at 56th Street station. I linger a moment making sure that I am...

By Martha Citlaly Mora Hernandez, Elon University (2016) This summer I interned in American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in...

By Lauren Scott, Elon University (2017) The community that I worked in this summer, Atlanta, lacks the proper structure to sustain the...

By Elena Diller, Washington and Lee University (2017) I sit in the passenger seat of a 15-person van, listening to 90’s rap music on a...

By Katherine Rose Johnson, Middlebury College (2018) “tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine” — Mary Oliver, Wild...

By Jaziah Masters, Baylor University (2017) This room has special meaning for me. This past summer, room 209 became my classroom, a...

By Zoe Stein, Washington and Lee University (2017) This summer I served as a mentor for Monster Slayers, a summer program targeting...

By Emma Swabb, Washington and Lee University (2017) It was the first Wednesday of the mandatory summer program at Washington Jesuit...