Cassandra Lawrence visited with her aunt, Vickie Pynchon, for Thanksgiving after spending a year at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland studying Comparative Ethnic Conflict.
Cassandra will be joining AmeriCorps and heading down to the Gulf States to help rebuild the communities damaged or destroyed by last season’s hurricanes, particularly Katrina.
In this video, Cassandra talks about the importance of narrative - story telling - both in the rebuilding of individual lives, but also in creating the communities future. She also discusses means of bringing together the have’s and have-not’s after the dreadful dislocation of poverty-stricken areas and our government’s glacially slow response to the crisis.
Cassandra and Vickie,
Thanks for going “on the air” with this interview. You’re doing great work: it gives us encouragement. I recognized some of the comments about working with hurricane survivors…sometimes stories are our most meaningful possessions. Go forward with our affection and appreciation. –Dave