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...Michelle Kuo...
...you’re lucky enough to catch Michelle Kuo outside of Harvard’s UniLu homeless shelter, odds are she’ll still be lending someone a hand. Tonight, she’s helping the Lowell dining hall staff put out Brain Break. Bundled in a bright red coat topped off with a lilac scarf and a pair of shaking pigtails, the ebullient Kuo apologizes for her “massive boogers.” It’s easy to see how she brings smiles to people with difficult lives...
...Kuo oversees more than 300 volunteers and gives 25 hours a week to UniLu, which she joined as a first-year. She counts her relationships with its guests—including recovering alcoholics, battered women and drug addicts—as her most meaningful friendships, and says some of her most satisfying memories are times when a shelter guest shows her the keys to a new house. “She has an internal radar of how people are doing and knows intuitively when they need a boost,” says Dominika L. Seidman...
...These budget cuts are coming at a time of the biggest housing crisis in Boston in 25 years,” said Kuo. “As a shelter, we are trying to take on that burden...
...Kuo said that the area restaurants have really come forward to help after the cuts...