Stef Russell talks to Che Applewhaite, Catie Barr, Kale Catchings and Saul Glist, a team of four Harvard undergraduates who have traveled from Boston to spend 10 weeks in St. Louis under the auspices of The Commonwealth Project. A Harvard initiative founded by Tef Poe and Walter Johnson, it models a new way for universities to engage with social problems through service and collaboration with professors, students, cultural producers, activists, attorneys and others. Also on deck was Commonwealth Project co-coordinator Robin McDowell, Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard. The group talks about the projects it undertook this summer with its St. Louis partners, including EHOC (Metro St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council).

The Commonwealth Project
https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/commonwealth-project

Metro St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council
https://ehocstl.org/

Equity Legal Services
https://www.equitylegalservices.org/

RC Striders Track & Field Team
https://www.instagram.com/rcstridersstl/

Organization for Black Struggle
https://www.obs-stl.org/

The Griot Museum of Black History and Culture
https://www.thegriotmuseum.com/

The Venable Park Coalition FB Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/738798083251934/