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By Kelsey Hoffman, Lynchburg College (2015); MSW Candidate (2017), Virginia Commonwealth University I woke up to the ringing of my too...

By Rebecca Dunn, Washington and Lee University (2016) There is a truly a housing crisis in our nation’s capital. This crisis is...

By Christopher Stella, Elon University, Elon Law (2017) Hurricane Katrina is arguably the worst man-made disaster that the United States...

By Kjersti Kleine, Furman University (2017) Driving into Helena-West Helena, Arkansas was like nothing I have ever experienced. As we...

By Molly Snell-Larch, AmeriCorps Member Service Fellow, LIFT (DC). Ms Snell-Larch is a 2015 Graduate of the College of Wooster and a...

By Mason Grist, Washington and Lee University (2018). Confusion. Anger. Frustration. These emotions culminate in an outpouring of tears...

By Wesley Saintilnord, Berea College (2016) In spring of 2015, I was accepted to the prestigious Shepherd Internship Program at the Moses...

2:45 PM Session E, Washington & Lee University, Science Center 1) Parmly 307 “The Ethics of Freedom: Consequences for...

The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) has received another matching grant from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz...

AGENDA 2015 Symposium and Frueauff Closing Conference “Food, Nutrition, and Health in Children” and Shepherd Internship Reports. Schedule...

By Eleanor Paige Bacon As an intern at HomeAgain in Richmond, Virginia, a non-profit organization that provides transitional and...

16 July 2015 – Lexington, VA – The Charles A. Frueauff Foundation of Little Rock, Arkansas has pledged a substantial grant to the...

By Jill Waity, Ph.D. When I first began college at Washington and Lee University, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I had always done...

Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, a featured speaker on the Affordable Care...

24 June 2015 – Lexington, VA – Virginia Military Institute has made a grant to the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty...

The increasing nutrition gap between children from the privileged and children from less well-supported classes will be the focus of the...

In the spring of 2014, I applied for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Internship Program, not knowing how valuable it...

By Shiri Yadlin, Shepherd Intern 2010 Yadlin will begin a Masters Program at Georgetown University this fall. She is a 2012 graduate of...

Baltimore, MD – 11 July 2015 – Brown Advisory and A.C. and Penney Hubbard have donated funds to the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium...

Monday, 8 June 2015 – The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters writes about poverty studies in her current entry her blog, “To Do Justice.” She...