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...site. Jones began his social outreach career by joining Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Operation Breadbasket in the 1960s, according to the Web site of the Academy of Achievement in Washington D.C. King’s civil rights group was dedicated to promoting urban economic development. Jones was also a founder, along with Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation People United to Serve Humanity, which today aims to fulfill similar goals as King’s former group. According to a press release, Jones himself was mentored by several well-known public figures. At age 15, Jones...
...people don’t have exposure to the people that they are going to be adversely impacting,” he says. “I do have exposure.” The summer before his junior year, Amutah met Golis, a fellow First-year Urban Program leader. Golis suggested that Amutah join the staff of Cambridge Common, the lefty Harvard blog Golis founded in 2005. “He is considerably more radical than I am,” Golis says. “He is willing to tell everyone else to screw off if he doesn?...
...while concealed had inexplicably covered himself with remnants of band uniforms, burst from his hideaway, singing “I Will Survive” while he ran for the door. A first glance at Singh’s CV reveals an overachieving Harvard student: he is a First-year Urban Program leader and a theater producer with nine plays to his name. A deeper look exhibits an amusing mixture of funky and humanitarian, a juxtaposition that just might begin to characterize the seemingly undefinable Singh. As a sophomore, the theater-active Singh drew national media attention with...
...bill that she helped write with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, which will ensure greater accountability for her home city’s education system. Next year, Urzua will return to LA with Teach for America. But she may have an ulterior motive for returning to her urban California home. “You could ask me anytime of the day, I always want to drive. I love driving.” But despite her many accomplishments, Urzua hasn’t mastered the rules of the road. “Mirla once drove over the cement dividers...
...Hogeland will move to an orphanage near Cusco, Peru, to study the availability of health care in third world countries. While much of her day-to-day work will be at the orphanage, she will also visit remote Andes villages to research the disparity in health care between urban and rural settings. Lee, an African American studies concentrator, said she intends to study the formation of popular assemblies and movements primarily in the Oaxaca and Chiapas regions of Mexico. The Oaxaca region has one of the highest indigenous populations in the country but also one of the poorest populations, according...