Name: Carmen Yager

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Homelessness—Communities of Color and Children

Date of Fieldwork: January 31, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Nicole McVinua from Urban Pathways(Director of Policy)

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Monday January 31st, my group and I interviewed Nicole Mcvinua. Nicole works with Urban Pathways as the Director of Policies. She. has been working with Urban Pathways for the past three years. Through this time she has seen many successes bringing her closer to the big goal of ending homelessness.

During the interview we covered many topics and got to hear a lot about what Nicole does. One of the thing that I remember her talking about is about is how Urban Pathways can help find homeless people small apartments or hotels within a couple hours. This speeds up the waiting process that other places make people deal with, making it a lot easier for a homeless person to find a place and not have to worry about waiting for long periods of time. She also talked about all the successes she has seen through and even thought there is a long road a head of us before homelessness will truly be over. Everyday were are taking a step closer.

Im so grateful that Nicole took sometime to talk to us about what she does. Everything she said during the interview was very interesting and inspiring. I am very exited about the next steps we have to take.