Kira Barrett

Editorial Intern — Fall 2018
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I’m a junior at the University of Maryland-College Park, originally from Baltimore, MD. My major is multiplatform Journalism and I’m working on a Minor in nonprofit Leadership. On the side, I mentor freshmen in the honors college, sing in an a capella group, and work in the history department. I’m really interested in education issues and education policy, and I’d like to focus on these issues in the nonprofit sector after college. Some of my hobbies are running, reading, traveling and cooking.

Articles by Kira

• Co-op Tightshift gives ex-prisoners a new way to work

• Business improvement districts have a complicated relationship with people experiencing homelessness

• DC government looks to family and friends to help stabilize people facing homelessness

• Lyft offers a low-income discount on scooters in DC. It also lobbied against a tax to fund shelter beds in San Francisco.

• Financial abuse is more stealthy and just as sinister as physical violence

• Metro Transit Police target Black youth for fare evasion, report says

• Advocates welcome back D.C. Council, asking how they will address homelessness