Born and raised in Washington, D.C., currently living in Philadelphia, Megan is focused on How we use storytelling and the sharing of life expriences to effect real change

Colleges Are Beginning to Tackle Student Homelessness

Miguel Ortiz-Cruz was a junior at North Carolina State University when Hurricane Florence hit. Three years earlier, he had come to the Raleigh-based university on a full-ride scholarship. A year later, he planned to graduate from NC State’s College of Education with a degree in graphic communications. But now, he had to figure out how to maintain his education while his family home, a few hours from campus, had been badly damaged, rendering his family homeless.

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