Month: June 2017

When Hassan Dahir was barely a toddler, the central government of his country — Somalia — was overtaken by force and fell. During his boyhood years, Hassan’s country was dangerously divided between warring factions and violent armed groups. When he reached his teenage years, Hassan’s mother made a difficult and fateful decision that would change his Read More

As Tonda Thompson left the retreat center in 2015 and boarded the bus back to Milwaukee, she realized she had left something behind. She had spent the past days sitting in a circle with 40 young people who had been strangers to her before starting the Public Allies AmeriCorps program just five months prior. This Read More