Dr. Tynisha N. Worthy (鈥08, 鈥21) isn鈥檛 afraid to ask the tough questions.
It all started when she was working as the volunteer & special events coordinator for Lighthouse Youth & Family Services, where she recruited volunteers for the organizations鈥 programs, planned fundraisers and worked with community stakeholders.
鈥淚 saw a lot of young people coming in for various reasons,鈥 she says. 鈥淎nd then I would see them later鈥攐n the news, harmed in some way or that they had harmed someone. Or they would come back. I was curious about the policies we had in place. How do we change the environment these young people are in? How do we fix things? The role of a nonprofit is supposed to be that they are created to solve problems. But we weren鈥檛 solving any problems.鈥
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