Student club helps unhoused communities in L.A.
"Teya Hisel sought out opportunities on campus to get involved, including the United Way and the Downtown Women’s Center, and hoped to join the Housing Equity Project, a student organization that promotes housing equity around L.A., But when USC shifted to remote learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, the club died out and Hisel began to think of other ways she could get involved in advocating for housing equality."
This article allowed Adrian to connect with their peers and bring attention to the work they were doing to help the surrounding South Central community. The founding members of the advocaSC club, Teya Hisel, Thomas Martynowicz, and Atharva Tewari, as well as a handful of other club members, spoke to Adrian in person after they attended one of the club's weekly meetings.
This club focused on policy advocacy, education and outreach, and direct service. All students were encouraged to attend their meetings, where they shared stats about the unhoused population in the surrounding South Central area and coordinated their next project to aid in the welfare of the unhoused population. Hisel shared, "I built advocaSC based off of the idea that you can’t do direct service without [also] addressing systemic issues, without addressing policy at the same time, and without educating the people in your community to support those policies and support that service.”
The full article can be read at: https://dailytrojan.com/2022/04/07/student-club-helps-unhoused-communities-in-l-a/
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