How Mobile Oasis Improves Nutrition and Builds Community
By Hannah Gilmore, Washington and Lee University (2016) Alana Babington and I pored over a map of Greensboro, NC, divided into wobbly...
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- Sep 4, 2015
Challenges to the Universal Right to Healthcare – CrossOver Ministry and the Shepherd Experien
By Emily Kruse, University of Notre Dame (2016) As a Medical Administrator Intern at CrossOver Ministry, a free healthcare clinic in...
- Sep 4, 2015
Expanding My Concept of Health and Healthcare
By Jennifer Saccente, Washington and Lee University (2017) “Well that will certainly be interesting…” This comment, along with a look of...
- Sep 3, 2015
Chemical Dependency Epidemic Reveals How US Healthcare Fails the Poor
By Abigail Block, Washington & Lee University (2017) When I attempt to explain my summer experience to friends and family, it comes out...
- Sep 3, 2015
Redefining Justice
By Leah Travis, Millsaps College (2017) It was my last day in Washington, D.C. after having spent a whirlwind summer interning as an...
- Aug 31, 2015
Good Legal Aid Lawyering Requires More Than Knowing the Law
By Marina Giannirakis, John Carroll University (2017) No matter who you are or what kind of person you are, there is no possible way to...
- Aug 24, 2015
Is Shelter a Basic Human Right?
By Rebecca Dunn, Washington and Lee University (2016) There is a truly a housing crisis in our nation’s capital. This crisis is...
- Aug 24, 2015
New Orleans at Pivotal Crossroads for Indigent Criminal Justice
By Christopher Stella, Elon University, Elon Law (2017) Hurricane Katrina is arguably the worst man-made disaster that the United States...
- Aug 24, 2015
Immersion is Vital to Understanding Health Challenges
By Kjersti Kleine, Furman University (2017) Driving into Helena-West Helena, Arkansas was like nothing I have ever experienced. As we...
- Aug 17, 2015
The Other Side of the Glass Window at the Guilford County Jail
By Mason Grist, Washington and Lee University (2018). Confusion. Anger. Frustration. These emotions culminate in an outpouring of tears...
- Aug 11, 2015
Social Interactions and Relational Networks are Key to Health Outcomes
By Wesley Saintilnord, Berea College (2016) In spring of 2015, I was accepted to the prestigious Shepherd Internship Program at the Moses...
- Apr 20, 2015
Discovering Similarity in Two Cities, Worlds Apart
What do Amman, Jordan and the Church Hill area of Richmond, Virginia have in common? If I had been asked this question three months ago,...
- Feb 10, 2015
Hasan Discovers the Challenge of Equal Opportunity for All
Jabriel Hasan, Marymount University, worked in Chester, Pennsylvania I remember sitting down to discuss our Community Learning Agreement...
- Jan 26, 2015
Go Find Out! How Joe Ciborowski Learned at the Public Defender Service
Driving into DC the night before the first day of my internship was a surreal experience. I did not know whether I should be scared,...
- Jan 20, 2015
Sweeney Learns that Burlington Citizens Want a Hand Up, Not a Handout
During my Shepherd Higher Education Consortium Poverty Internship, I worked with the organization Champlain Valley Office of Economic...
- Jan 19, 2015
Raggio’s Work with Refugees Raises Questions about U.S. Poverty Policy
Olivia Raggio worked in Atlanta. The public transportation system in Atlanta coincides with how I imagined life to be in the Southern...
- Jan 19, 2015
Faust and Snell-Larch Learn about Their Common Humanity with Others
Molly Snell-Larch worked at LIFT-Boston. Two Perspectives on a Summer Working at LIFT-Boston Molly Snell-Larch The first thing I learned...
- Jan 8, 2015
Laubach Discovers Law is a Necessary Instrument for Limiting Environmental Injustice
By Kerriann Laubach Ms. Laubach is a student at Washington & Lee University School of Law As an undergraduate Environmental Studies major...
- Jan 8, 2015
Korn Learns about Poverty when She Least Expects It
By Jillian Korn Korn with fellow interns Forester (Hendrix College) and Allen (Centre College). Before I began my internship at So Others...
- Jan 8, 2015
Goike and Mathew Learn about Treating Drug Addiction to Limit Poverty
Reny Mathew (Baylor) and Anna Goike (Notre Dame) interned at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine. Treating Drug Addiction to...
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