Name: Hudson Moore

Social Justice Group: Homelessness in NYC (A)

Date of Fieldwork: January 17, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Advocates for Children of New York, Marcia Flores, Education Partnerships Manager

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

On January 17 our group interviewed Marcia Flores. She is the education partnerships manager at Advocates for Children of New York. What this means is she tries to get kids who are homeless, schools near their shelter. Because the shelters are assigned randomly a lot of times kids are put in homeless shelters far from their school, Marcia tries to help kids by changing their shelter to somewhere closer to their school.

Marcia explained that her and her team have to look at data from schools to tell if a kid is homeless. They do this by checking how many times kids have been absent. If a kid has been absent more than 17 times they investigate. They do this by contacting the family and child. They then try to work with them to get a closer shelter.