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Nov 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Ethan Greer |Nora Scully |Ajani Jones
Vice President Kamala Harris is hosting an election night event at Howard University, where she graduated with a degree in economics and political science in 1986 and was an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Harris will attend the watch party alongside her Husband, Doug Emhoff, who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. Follow along with the Voice’s coverage of Harris’ election night party as polls close across the nation.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Imani Liburd |Annemarie Cuccia |Nora Scully
After turning in their ballots for federal and state elections, it’ll be time for Hoyas to cast their votes again, this time for the next GUSA Executive team. Elections open on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m., and students will be emailed a link to vote on Qualtrics until Thursday, Nov.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Sydney Carroll |Nora Scully |Margaret Hartigan
Travelers at Union Station were greeted with chanting, dancing, cheering, and marching on Sept. 14 as over 500 demonstrators gathered for D.C.’s first Gender Liberation March at Columbus Circle. The march was co-founded by writer and activist Raquel Willis and organizer Eliel Cruz to advocate for both reproductive justice and trans rights. Willis, who spoke at the beginning of the rally, emphasized the intention and message of the Gender Liberation March.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Nora Scully |Sarah Watson |Annemarie Cuccia
Even before she got to Georgetown, Kessley Janvier (CAS ’25) knew she’d find herself holding the university accountable through activism. “I was joking to some of my friends, I’m going to this prestigious university, and I know that I’m just going to end up protesting them in some way, shape, or form,” Janvier said. Janvier isn’t the only one.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Ajani Jones |Nora Scully
Dear Voice readers,Welcome to the New Student Issue: a collection of articles about the joyful, challenging, complicated transition to life at Georgetown. Pondering the weight of this transition, we asked ourselves: If you were an incoming first-year with the knowledge you have now, how would you do things differently? What would you have wanted to know? What must new students carry forward with them through their time at Georgetown and in D.C.?
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Nora Scully
Sitting around a table at Miriam’s Kitchen, the founding members of the People for Fairness Coalition knew the District had a problem. They had firsthand experience with the city’s homeless services — and their flaws. Motivated by necessity, the members felt the city ignored people experiencing homelessness when making policies that directly impacted them. So they decided to advocate for themselves.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Nora Scully
If you ask D.C. lawmakers why they aren’t pushing to fund more housing vouchers in this year’s budget, the answer is always the same. “We’ve been to this rodeo a number of times. We put a lot of money into vouchers and then find that there are a lot that have gone out the door,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said, referencing the slow distribution of vouchers, in a press conference on May 28. D.C.’s voucher system has been under strain for several years.
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May 8, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Nora Scully
Two months after collective bargaining began between Unity Health Care (UHC) and its unionized providers, the organization representing the providers’ union has filed an unfair labor charge against UHC for failing to bargain in good faith, retaliating and silencing workers. The providers hope to reach a collective bargaining agreement quickly to improve working and safety conditions and better serve community members.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Nora Scully
On the morning of April 22, hundreds of people gathered outside the Supreme Court to protest the criminalization of homelessness, while justices heard oral arguments in a landmark case that could have staggering implications for the future of homelessness policy in the country. The rally, titled “Housing not Handcuffs,” was organized by the National Homelessness Law Center and the National Coalition for the Homeless and co-sponsored by dozens of other local and national organizations.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Nora Scully
Unity Health Care (UHC) physicians and advanced practice providers, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, have begun contract negotiations with UHC after unionizing five months ago. Unity Health Care was founded in 1985 as the Health Care for the Homeless Project. It initially provided primary care to families and individuals experiencing homelessness.
