Category Archives: Social Justice

ATL: Acceptance, Tolerance, Love

7 May Filed under Living In Atlanta, Photos, Social Justice, Social Work. 6 Comments.

Click here to see the Gallery of Photos: The infamous Westboro Baptist Church has been hanging around Atlanta the past 2 days. These are the folks who hold hate-filled signs at military funerals, Jewish community centers, and high schools all over the nation. Grady High … Read More →

CARE: Share Your Heart

30 Mar Filed under Living In Atlanta, Photos, Social Justice, Social Work. 2 Comments.

Click Here for the Photo Gallery. CARE is an amazing organization that I have been fortunate to intern at since August. What does CARE do? Here’s our mission statement: Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing … Read More →

Kiva.org Micro-Lending

27 Dec Filed under Living In Atlanta, Photos, Social Justice, Social Work. No comments.

We’ve been ‘donating’ to Kiva.org since May of 2008 (see here). For those who have no idea what micro lending is, the main concept is that in developing (third world) nations, the people who need loans the most, are unable to get them because they … Read More →

My Letter to Congress

7 Oct Filed under Living In Atlanta, Social Justice, Social Work. 8 Comments.

Dear Congress, I am a 28-year-old graduate student living in Atlanta, GA. I grew up reading books – hundreds of books, because I loved to read. My family was middle-class, but not wealthy. They couldn’t afford to buy all the books I wanted to read, … Read More →

Public Health Final

28 Jul Filed under Living In Atlanta, Social Justice, Social Work. No comments.

NPU-V Final from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. Ha, I’m such a nerd that I’m posting my final project for my “Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health” class. We were supposed to look at social determinants of health in Neighborhood Planning Unit V, a primarily low-income, … Read More →

When Working Isn’t Working – Part II

7 Jul Filed under Social Justice, Social Work, Thoughts'n'such. 2 Comments.

So let’s say a single mom with 2 kids in DeKalb County finds one job that pays $11.00/hour and another job paying $7.50/hour. She has to work both jobs full-time. She has one child in elementary school and one child in daycare. She works 80 … Read More →

When Working Isn’t Working

7 Jul Filed under Social Justice, Social Work. No comments.

A single mom with 2 kids in DeKalb County needs to earn a minimum of $18.47 per hour at a 40 hr/week job to support her family without depending on any additional assistance. A 2-parent, 2-kid family in Gwinnett County needs both parents to work … Read More →

Love’n'marriage

3 Jul Filed under Happy Things, Photos, Social Justice. No comments.

Yay! My sticker came! If you want one of these, too, GO HERE. They’re free!