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Article Excerpt
I am the co-founder and executive director of Heads Up: A University Neighborhood Initiative, a D.C. nonprofit organization that runs after-school tutoring, mentoring, and summer learning programs for low-income children and families. These programs are unique, and relevant to a discussion of student activism, in that we intentionally provide opportunities for college students to serve as tutors, teachers, and mentors in order to promote their development as leaders motivated to effect social change.
For background, in the early 1990s I entered college with a clear mind-set about what I wanted to do after graduation: work on Wall Street. But by chance and luck, I began volunteering my freshman year with children from a dilapidated Boston public housing project, and that experience changed both my career and life goals. During my four years as an undergraduate, I stuck with that volunteer commitment and came to know the children and families I worked with quite well. As important, I also came to understand many of the difficult issues that they and the urban communities they lived in truly faced. Although this learning was nor guided...
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