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with that really open their eyes.
“I have students who will say, ‘I’m working
with these young people, and they have a hard time getting food, and when I ask them about it, they say they have to go somewhere else to go to a grocery store. And they’ll say they take the bus, but the driver only lets my mom take on two bags of food — and we need more food than that.’
“Our students often don’t realize the challenges that sometimes face these families,” Elvers went on. “And when they hear these stories, they start to realize, and that’s when they start to ask questions, like ‘why would there not be a grocery store in this neighborhood?’ and ‘who’s doing something about that?’ and ‘how do we get involved in that?’ and ‘what’s the process by which that can happen?’
Opening students’ eyes to these challenges, these problems confronting those living just outside the campus, has become part of Elvers’ mission and work.
Her business card says she is the director of the Center for Service and Leadership. But she’s really a builder — a builder of relationships, of connections, of bridges between two entities that share a zip code but often little else.
And her success as a builder explains why she’s a Woman of Impact. n George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]
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“I have seen more college students ask the
really important questions and start to engage
after they’ve developed a relationship with a
local family and learn of the challenges that
are happening,” she continued. “These are challenges that some of them would never have faced.”
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“I have seen more college students ask the really important questions and start to engage after they’ve developed a relationship with a local family and learn of the challenges that
are happening.”
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