Episode 55- The Commonwealth Project

Stef Russell talks to Che Applewhaite, Catie Barr, Kale Catchings and Saul Glist, a team of four Harvard undergraduates who have traveled from Boston to spend 10 weeks in St. Louis under the auspices of The Commonwealth Project. A Harvard initiative founded by Tef Poe and Walter Johnson, it models a new way for universities to engage with social problems through service and collaboration with professors, students, cultural producers, activists, attorneys and others. Also on deck was Commonwealth Project co-coordinator Robin McDowell, Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard. The group talks about the projects it undertook this summer with its St. Louis partners, including EHOC (Metro St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council). The Commonwealth Projecthttps://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/commonwealth-projectMetro St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Councilhttps://ehocstl.org/Equity Legal Serviceshttps://www.equitylegalservices.org/RC Striders Track & Field Teamhttps://www.instagram.com/rcstridersstl/Organization for Black Strugglehttps://www.obs-stl.org/The Griot Museum of Black History and Culturehttps://www.thegriotmuseum.com/The Venable Park Coalition FB Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/738798083251934/