Will Schick

Staff Reporter

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Will first joined Street Sense Media as an editorial intern in 2019 and returned as an accountability reporter for both Street Sense Media and The D.C. Line in 2021. He recently earned an MFA in Creative Writing at American University. Prior to this, Will served eleven years in the Marine Corps where he did multiple deployments to Afghanistan, and the Asia-Pacific. He is also a polyglot who speaks six languages to varying degrees of fluency (Chinese, Dari, English, French, Korean, and Spanish).

Articles by Will

• DC residents owe the highest student loan debt per capita in the US. Councilmembers asked the federal government to cancel it

• DC’s proposed FY 2022 budget to increase funding for affordable housing

• Recovering from the trauma of an encampment cleanup

• Interfaith service held for those who died without a home

• Activists march to remember 117 people who died without homes in DC

• At least 117 people died without a home in DC this year

• REVIEW: Josh Hayes's "The Invisible Class" is a film meant to inform, not entertain

• What is so complicated about homeless encampments in the District?

• 15 feet and a wall: Why some homeowners feel marginalized by the city's plan to help families without homes

• Obituary: Michael Irby of Washington DC

• How cool indifference magnifies the summer heat

• When an encampment is a single person and their stuff

• Re-framing the District’s shelter meals debate

• DC Council restores some funds to UMC and housing preservation