Hi everyone and Welcome to SHECP Talks! 

At this summer’s conference, the Friday night Welcome Dinner was co-hosted by SHECP’s six Policy and Nonprofit Leadership Interns. These amazing students had just completed their second summer with SHECP, and this time they had been focusing on understanding the challenges of leading anti-poverty organizations and the development of relevant policy.

For this episode, we will honored to share with you Katie Schadler’s welcome address. Katie, an English Major at Bucknell, completed her SHECP Summer internship at Miriam’s Kitchen in 2024 and then served as our first Policy & Nonprofit Leadership Intern with the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Stay tuned after her speech to hear some bonus advice from this year’s interns. You can read her speech and view photos from her summers here: https://www.shepherdconsortium.org/post/reflecting-on-my-shecp-summers-schadler

We hope you enjoy.