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...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...
...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...
...overcome her self-proclaimed “judgmental streak” when confronting such views. Her panelist for the final rounds in the Rhodes scholarship competition asked Kuo if her friendships with the guests at the homeless shelter were “real.” Kuo calls the Rhodes process “corrupting. It became a total vanity thing, rather than, ‘I want to study in England...
...hasn’t been easy for Kuo to reconcile her parents’ two-car garage with the lifestyle of a shelter guest who works 50 hours a week and still can’t afford a home. When Kuo entered Harvard, she “wanted to end homelessness in the USA.” Now, she says, “If I can provide a safe space for 24 people in Cambridge, I’ll feel good about it...I used to get mad that people weren’t engaged in social issues...
Michelle Kuo, director of the student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, seemed barely able to contain her exuberance for socializing, even while engaging in the kind of quirky behavior which secretly delights magazine writers everywhere. She simultaneously devised a three-story house of cards out of Sweet ’n Low packages and probed everyone sitting within talking radius whether they considered themselves, way deep down inside, to be “giving” people. In a pique of social energy, Kuo, at one point in the evening, spontaneously thrust herself backwards and would have toppled...