Immersion Course

These past three days of collective study and conversation have been really beneficial to my understanding and assessment of the state of poverty in the nation.

From January 13 to January 15, the Poverty Initiative in New York City began an Immersion trip that will go across three states to reflect on and see important sites in the fight against poverty—and also sites that are significant in the creation and sustaining of a power structure that places a few wealthy people on top while the rest toil away below them. I am fortunate enough to take part in the first leg of this journey. Let me tell you that I have been left with my jaw on the floor at the strength and intelligence of the participants and with the amount of leadership mentality in the room. Every way I turn I am just hit with the amount of power and potential.

The Poverty Initiative, an organization dedicated to "raising up generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a movement led by the poor, to end poverty"