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Melissa Dunmore (she/her) (Public Allies Arizona ‘12) has always been a writer. As a Brooklyn-born Boricua living in the Valley of the Sun, she has developed her keen artistic style to illustrate the lived experiences of marginalized communities and to shed light on social issues that are often overlooked. Her term of service with Public Read More

You know that saying, “Opposites Attract?” Well for Michaela Lacy (she/her) (Public Allies Wisconsin ‘20 & 21) and Prince Grayson (he/him) (Public Allies Wisconsin ‘20 & ‘21), that couldn’t be more true. As self-proclaimed extroverts and introverts, respectively, the duo never imagined themselves falling in love with one another and having Public Allies to thank Read More

It’s May 2009. Anthony Espinoza (he/him) (Public Allies Wisconsin ‘18) and Marleisa Quiles-Espinoza (she/her) (Public Allies Wisconsin ‘16 & ‘17) meet by serendipity, on a gloomy day in a backyard through mutual friends. Although they didn’t yet know it, teenage Tony and Lisa would soon learn, grow, and thrive together with Public Allies playing a Read More

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

[ut_title_divider] YALE STUDY, CONCEIVED AND CO-EDITED BY CONNECTICUT ALUM, CALLS FOR END TO CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS [/ut_title_divider] A new report from Yale Law School — Forced Into Breaking the Law — The Criminalization of Homelessness in Connecticut — aims to stop the criminalization of homelessness in the state of Connecticut. Central to “conceiving, planning, and editing” the Read More

LaShawnda Crowe Storm, a community artist and Public Allies Indianapolis alum, was recently awarded a $200,000 grant from ArtPlace America to assist her beautification work in northwest Indianapolis. ArtPlace America is a collaborative effort to incorporate arts and culture into community planning. Crowe Storm, alongside fellow artist and activist Phyllis Viola Boyd, is spearheading a Read More

National service has long enjoyed overwhelming public support as well as eight decades of strong bipartisan legislative support. Nonetheless, President Trump’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget calls for the elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers national service programs including AmeriCorps (which funds Public Allies) and Senior Corps. The final word Read More