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You do not need a college degree, political connections, or years of advocacy experience to make a difference. If you've experienced homelessness, housing insecurity, poverty, foster care, addiction, incarceration, or another systemic challenge, your lived experience is valuable. In fact, many organizations are actively working to include people with lived experience because they understand that better policies begin with listening to the people most affected. For too long, d

For a long time, I believed that because I had experienced homelessness, addiction, poverty, and countless barriers, my voice didn't belong in the rooms where decisions were being made. I assumed policy was something created by lawyers, politicians, researchers, and people with degrees hanging on their walls. I thought I had nothing to contribute. I couldn't have been more wrong. What I've learned over the past few years is that there are organizations across the country act

Breaking the stigmas on homelessness in America.

An article with interviews on the Short and Long-term effects of drug abuse, preventative measures, and the relation to mental illness.

Hi everyone. If you’re reading this, I would like to start with Thank you and I hope you read until the end because this is a very...

Have you ever stopped in front of a mirror and asked yourself who am I? Have you ever felt lost or stuck and didn’t know which direction...

Diving into diversity can enrich your life in so many ways. When we learn how other individuals think and react to certain situations and...