Latest News

By Cabell Willis Cabell Willis is a 2014 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in...

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 Matt Germaine Matt interned at the Atlanta Community Food Bank the summer before his senior year at The College of Wooster.  He is a...

By Rachel Tullio Ms. Tullio  is serving at ARTEZ (Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone) working on several community development...

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...

Claiborne Taylor works with Teach For America alumni in Philadelphia.  He taught 4th grade in Houston, Texas through Teach For America;...

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 Morgan Hobbs Ms. Hobbs works at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. as a Research Assistant. She is a 2015 graduate of...

Essays from many of the nearly one hundred college and law school students who served as 2015 Shepherd Internships are being posted...

By Paige Coomer Ms. Commer attends Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she serves on the executive board for the Public...

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...

By Hannah Gilmore, Washington and Lee University (2016) Alana Babington and I pored over a map of Greensboro, NC, divided into wobbly...

4 September 2015, Lexington, Virginia – The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty announced today that John Carroll University...

By Emily Kruse, University of Notre Dame (2016) As a Medical Administrator Intern at CrossOver Ministry, a free healthcare clinic in...

By Jennifer Saccente, Washington and Lee University (2017) “Well that will certainly be interesting…” This comment, along with a look of...

By Abigail Block, Washington & Lee University (2017) When I attempt to explain my summer experience to friends and family, it comes out...