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Home  /  MCFeeds  /  New Article: The Head of the Wily Network on Basic Needs and Belonging for Students on Their Own

Basic Needs, Mental and Behavioral Health, Student Success

New Article: The Head of the Wily Network on Basic Needs and Belonging for Students on Their Own

August 25, 2021

This one section of the 8/18 – 8/24, 2021 MCFeed Newsletter

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.” 

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