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Introduction: Dr. Jonathan Wortham graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2004 and from the Baylor College of Medicine in 2008. ...

By Joe Landry Washington and Lee University ’13 Instead of cutting aid to the poor, the president and Congress should focus on reforming...

Jabriel Hasan, Marymount University, worked in Chester, Pennsylvania I remember sitting down to discuss our Community Learning Agreement...

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,...

During my Shepherd Higher Education Consortium Poverty Internship, I worked with the organization Champlain Valley Office of Economic...

Olivia Raggio worked in Atlanta. The public transportation system in Atlanta coincides with how I imagined life to be in the Southern...

Molly Snell-Larch worked at LIFT-Boston. Two Perspectives on a Summer Working at LIFT-Boston Molly Snell-Larch The first thing I learned...

By Kerriann Laubach Ms. Laubach is a student at Washington & Lee University School of Law As an undergraduate Environmental Studies major...

By Jillian Korn Korn with fellow interns Forester (Hendrix College) and Allen (Centre College). Before I began my internship at So Others...

Reny Mathew (Baylor) and Anna Goike (Notre Dame) interned at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine. Treating Drug Addiction to...

Andre Ware interned with Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation in Boston. Every major news network in Boston was present. Over...

Hopscotch, I always thought, is a game played by innocent, laughing children on a playground that is safe from danger and pain. It is...

My specific role in the social services department involved “discharge planning,” which means that I initiated and carried out services...

At the clinic I shadowed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), a family health navigator, case managers, an insurance enrollment...

< In summer 2014, I completed a Shepherd internship at the Regional Center for Infectious Disease (RCID) in Greensboro, North Carolina. ...

SHECP Executive Director, Harlan Beckley, spoke at the Chautauqua Institution this summer on “Rethinking Poverty and Inequality: Changing...

Leanne Stone, W&L Leanne Stone, a member of Washington and Lee University’s Class of 2014, explored her interest in youth and education...

Nicky Peacher, W&L, assists students in the Bridges at St. Paul’s School program W&L student Nicky Peacher helped a summer enrichment...

Becca Dean, W&L I spent my summer as a Shepherd Intern in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s PACT Therapeutic...

Sarah Rachal, W&L W&L student Sarah Rachal worked with children in PACT’s therapeutic nursery in Baltimore as part of the 2013 Shepherd...