Be sure to check out this amazing article about Maddison Bruer (IP 2011-12), who discusses her transition from being a homeless teenager to a student at GW.
Last spring, junior Maddison Bruer stood before a room of her professors and peers to present her paper for the George Washington University’s Women’s Leadership Program. She posed a question to the group for discussion: Which words do you associate with homelessness?
The responses, as she had anticipated, were primarily negative.
After the initial discussion, Ms. Bruer offered the audience another set of words: “young, female, student, dedicated.”