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Jan 7, 2025 | 
magazine.nd.edu | Colleen Shaddox
Cleaning out the 64 square feet that Moses Bunn called home, we didn’t find much to flesh out an obituary: a bartender’s license, an ID badge from a stint as a security guard, but nothing in the way of family photos or personal letters. He’d just gotten a copy of his birth certificate. He was exactly as old as we’d guessed: 50. He was born in Orange, California, in 1974 to Larry and Myralene Shields Bunn.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
americamagazine.org | Colleen Shaddox
The world has thrown a million things at these windows: smoke, cooking grease, exhaust, mold running down from the shingles in a hard rain. This is no commercial, where a spray bottle of blue elixir makes everything shiny and new. Petrified scotch tape on the storm door once affixed a litany: Black Lives Matter; Food Not Bombs; Immigrants Are Welcome Here. Now it destroys fingernails and yields only to a putty knife. Degreaser. Ammonia. Vinegar. Serious scrubbing before buffing. But gently.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
courant.com | Joanne Goldblum |Colleen Shaddox
Poverty is a policy choice – not a personal failure. The author of “Hillbilly Elegy” says otherwise. This is not a commentary on the candidacy of author J.D. Vance, but on that flawed book and the flawed policies it supports. We spent three years delving into academic research and traveling the country to ask people in poverty to share their stories. We synthesized personal experiences and data into a book called “Broke In America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty.” Yes, ending.
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May 23, 2024 | 
world.yale.edu | Colleen Shaddox
During the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors encountered enormous challenges, including a shortage of clinicians to treat the volume of sick patients and a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies. Facing these problems in New Haven, Tracy Rabin, MD, SM, kept certain role models front of mind: the Ugandan colleagues she had met through the Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) collaboration.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Colleen Shaddox
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Colleen Shaddox
Rosette Neighborhood Village (RNV), a community of six tiny modular sleeping cabins , welcomes previously unhoused people behind the Amistad Catholic Worker House in New Haven. I love these people, because I love Jesus, who commanded me to love my neighbor, and to love them in a particularly active way when they are in need. But I do not just love the people at RNV abstractly.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
ctmirror.org | Joanne Goldblum |Colleen Shaddox
Congress let the refundable child tax credit expire at the end of 2021, among the most damaging policy mistakes in this nation’s history. That’s not hyperbole. The tax credit brought child poverty to a record low, lifting out of its depths. The child poverty rate more than doubled after the expanded program was allowed to sunset. Now Congress has a second chance to revive the refundable child tax credit. We hope they do not blow it, again.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
ctmirror.org | Colleen Shaddox
My mother was a great waitress. People would quickly step around other diners to grab seats in her section. No person has ever been more hardworking or more polite. She was also extremely deferential. This highly capable woman regarded everyone as her superior. The customer was always right. When I was old enough to work alongside her, I saw her smile time and again at rudeness that should have gotten customers bounced. Eventually, Mom and I worked at different restaurants.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
newhavenindependent.org | Colleen Shaddox
The following opinion essay was submitted by Colleen Shaddox, a member of the Rosette Village Collective and the author of “Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty.” A response from Mayor Justin Elicker appears at the end of this article. People sleeping in the tiny homes at Rosette Neighborhood Village (RNV) will not have heat tonight because the city is not providing a piece of paperwork that will allow United Illuminating to turn on the power.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
zip06.com | Colleen Shaddox
Living ‘When you stop looking at unhoused people as a problem and start looking at them as neighbors, everything changes’ New Haven’s Rosette Neighborhood Village has been able to buy six tiny homes to house people who had been living in tents–now the challenge is to keep those newly housed folks warm all winter. Home for the Holidays, a brunch fundraiser in North Branford, will raise support for ongoing expenses–including utilities–to sustain the community long-term. The event will take...
