Melissa Perez
This project focuses on amplifying the voices of youth in seasons of homelessness through an audio series centering their experiences. The purpose of this project is to humanize this experience and to increase people’s awareness about the phenomena of youth homelessness. I am working with an organization based in Chicago called One Heart One Soul, which provides art workshops to youth in seasons of homelessness. As part of this project, I will interview some of the youth involved in this program to capture their experiences in their own words. Ideally, this project will begin to change public attitudes about homelessness.
Library Mentor: Darlene Nichols