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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...

2017 SHECP Symposium speaker videos are now available at https://www.shepherdconsortium.org/conferences/symposium/ for the speakers and...

Working at Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC), a homeless outreach non-profit, in New York City this summer elicited two different...

With blooming potted vegetables at my feet, I stood in front of Brian at Beacon Apartments, a permanent housing site for the formerly...

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...

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...

I walked into the doors of the Cone Health Regional Center for Infectious Disease in Greensboro, North Carolina basically clueless. I...

Shepherd Consortium Elects New Officers and Council Members and Governing Board Chair Appoints Committee Chairs The Shepherd Higher...