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As I drive down the desolate Kentucky roads in the early summer of 2017 there is no whisper on the radio of an opioid epidemic or of...

“Having devoted my life to helping people rise above adversity and working in and around higher education the mission simply called to...

When I first walked into D.C.’s Central Detention Facility, I could hardly contain my excitement. I could not wait to show our client the...

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...

Professor Mick teaches Rhetorics of Gender and Poverty as well as the Capstone for Poverty Studies. She serves on the SHECP Governing...

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

As I near the end of my twenty years with the Shepherd Program at Washington and Lee, its intern Alliance that included Berea College,...

2017 was a record-setting year for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty. Under the direction of Internship Director Amy K....

The Shepherd Consortium (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest member, Manchester University (MU), to membership. Located in North...

Will you join us? On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday, people around the world will come together to celebrate and support...