Stories
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Reflecting on SYI’19
Amara Johnson, a mentor from our 2019 cohort, reflects on lessons learned and memories made during her mentorship.
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Leadership in Challenging Times: Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative Interviews Portia Ballard Espy
The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative interviewed Portia Ballard Espy, our Executive Director, as…
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Von Gordon: ‘Creating Courageous Spaces’
We’re very proud of our very own Von Gordon, youth engagement manager for the William…
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Unearthing and Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History With Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr.
The weekend I met Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr. was the 82nd anniversary of the lynching of his then-29-year-old father Elwood, an Oxford sharecropper, on Sept. 17, 1935.