Colleen Cosgriff

Case Manager

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Colleen began her time at Street Sense as an Editorial intern during the summer of 2015. She then returned to Street Sense as a volunteer reporter and a case management intern during the summer of 2016. Colleen graduated from the University of Mary Washington in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in English. During her time at Mary Washington, Colleen completed a year-long research project on the criminalization of homelessness in Virginia with the university’s Sociology Department.

Articles by Colleen

• Homeless Persons Memorial Day 2018

• Bathroom bill passes first full-Council vote

• National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2017

• People in the Park: Love, Roots, Routine and The Hot Dog Stand Man

• The Ask: Grieving Advocates Demand Investments in Housing

• Community Unity: Demonstrators Distribute Warm Clothing Downtown

• 48* Dead: Homeless advocates question city budget priorities, morals

• LIVE: Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2016

• Your Address Could Determine Your Right to Vote. What if you don't have one?

• Boots on the Ground: Through the Eyes of Election Officials

• Youth Lead Ivy City Civic Engagement, Call for Crummell Rec Center

• Murrow Park Photography Exhibit Connects Community

• Federal Court Postponed Homeless Man's Hearing to Allow Time to Obtain Housing

• Gallery Exhibition Spotlights Homeless Photographers

• Fighting for Homeless Rights, No Matter What

• Photographers Document Life During Displacement

• Friday, December 18: Demonstrators Take The Wilson Building

• Thursday, December 17: Community Sleeps Out to End Homeless Deaths

• LIVE: National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2015

• Ivy City Continues to Call for Community Center

• Synthetic "Marijuana": Easy to Find, Hard to Prosecute, Incredibly Dangerous

• City Adds Energy to the District's Environment

• District Revisits Contentious Ivy City School Development with Inclusive "Our RFP" Program

• Georgetown Man Remembered for Quiet Integrity

• Developers Prepare to Break Ground at Long-Neglected Park

• Teens Prepare Care Kits for Veterans and Questions for Congress

• Letting Nothing Get in the Way of Family

• Ivy City Community Center Dreams Put on Hold, Again

• Continued Overdoses Drag Synthetic Marijuana Into Spotlight

• New "Clark Inn" Only Substance Abuse Treatment in District to Keep Families Together

• Four Years Later, District Waits for Army to Turn Over Walter Reed

• 2016 Budget Promises Unprecedented Amount of Funding to Help Homeless People

• D.C. City Council Budget Passes Unanimously