How Does a Building Perpetuate Injustice? Architects design public buildings like machines: to make things easy and encourage consistent, replicable behaviors within a structure of power and control. Take courtrooms. If you’ve ever been in one, you immediately understand the accused person’s relationship to everyone in the room, and how…
Stesha Dupree has a harder story to tell than many members of the Class of 2020, but it’s one she wants to take every opportunity to share. “If I could tell my story to a million people so they would be safe and protect their family, that’s what I would…
Year of Team Learning For alum Rob Leichner (CPT ’04), a secondary math curriculum specialist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), this has been a year of team learning. Rob has seen the power of team show up in countless ways, including, “The way our community worked as a team to ensure every student…
When second-year corps member Evie Elson (Charlotte-Piedmont Triad ‘19) heard the news that insurrectionists had besieged the United States Capitol on Tuesday, January 6, it was after 9 p.m. She had just wrapped up a long day of teaching remotely from her mother’s house in London that week. With back-to-back…
What does it feel like in policy circles and on the Hill right now? White: Following the horrendous acts of insurrection and sedition in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, there’s still a collective sense of shock that is felt by all policy and advocacy professionals connected to the Hill….
As COO, Avione had her work cut out for her. Compelled by the urgency of the moment, her team created a plan to ensure that learning could continue outside of the school building and students were receiving the support that they needed. Within weeks, Community Academies provided their students with…
This week we celebrate and honor the work, life, and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This national holiday isn’t simply a day off but “a day on” to volunteer and give back to our communities and causes that matter to each of us. As an…
When an over-aged student who had been kicked out of high school could re-enter the same school building he was expelled from, years later, to try to regain his diploma. How that same boy could then seek me out (once it felt like everyone but the janitors had left the…
During the coronavirus pandemic, philanthropists have found creative ways to meet the urgent needs of their communities. With most communities facing every issue at once, institutions are being more flexible and creative in serving community need. Tayanna Teel Osorio, a principal community relations associate at Capital One Bank, has seen firsthand how the unfortunate circumstances of the pandemic also presents novel opportunities…
This week we celebrate and honor the work, life, and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This national holiday isn’t simply a day off but “a day on” to volunteer and give back to our communities and causes that matter to each of us. As an…
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