MCI summer intern and rising Harvard senior Mollie Ames interviews and writes about Judi King, Ph.D., founding director of the Wily Network, a safety net organization that supports college students’ basic needs. Founded in 2014, the Wily Network group helps young adults with clinical coaching, financial support, and community-based assistance throughout their college trajectories. Read the full piece here.
King describes the inspiration behind the mission of her work, “It was those young people that I had worked with that had really experienced trauma, had been in foster care, had been part of failed adoptions, but had made it to college — or, and had made it to college, I should say — and they were in college largely on their own.”