An End to Homeless Debt: Pro Bono Ticket Clinics Challenge Quality-of-Life Penalties
With an increasing trend in criminalizing homelessness, many individuals are forced to hide from authorities to avoid misdemeanors. Most cities have laws that prohibit the possession of a shopping cart or sleeping on the sidewalk, as well as life-sustaining activities such as pitching a tent, sitting and eating…
What Is the Real Cost of a Strawberry?
We top our açaí bowls with strawberries and slather our corn cobs with butter, but rarely consider the real cost of getting those foods to our plates. Most Americans do not think twice about where their food comes from. As a nation, we are more disconnected from our…
A Conversation with Anita Tam: The PTA Mom Turned Wonder Woman
Anita Tam, 53, is an Asian-American mother of 2 who immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong as a young adult. Based in the San Gabriel Valley, Anita has spent over a decade participating in a multitude of community outreach and volunteer programs. She is currently a…
How the Housing First Model Offers an Unorthodox Solution to Homelessness
Up until recently, the most prominent approach to solving homelessness appealed to the “conventional” wisdom, suggesting that society should aim to alleviate common problems surrounding homelessness like trauma and addiction in hopes to facilitate a homeless individual's ability to to find a stable home. …
United to End Homelessness: An Interview with Sue Parks
United to End Homelessness is an initiative whose mission is to reduce homelessness in Orange County to functional zero by 2024. By collaborating with other organizations, government agencies, and public institutions like UC Irvine, United Way is dedicated to helping the community and its constituents. After speaking with…
Creative Crafts for a Cause: Volunteers needed!
Join us this April in sewing backpacks, organizing compassion kits and writing letters for homeless neighbors. InSight Magazine and Irvine for Everyone are partnering to host a creative crafts and compassion session where attendees will work together to create Compassion Kits to give to homeless people. We welcome…
InSight Magazine Spring 2019 Internship: Call for Applicants
InSight Magazine is looking to grow its team for the Spring quarter of 2019. The publication will be accepting applications on various fronts, including content writing, digital-media, event planning and marketing. *Course credit available. *Compensation available for select content. We are looking for additions to the following teams:…
Photo-essay: Women Marching Into a Promising New Year
Pictured are images of the 2019 Los Angeles Women's March from January 19th, a demonstration that attracted thousands of attendees with their signs and flags voicing concerns with issues against women. The march carried themes of empowerment and asserting the demands of women all over California and the…
Faces and Voices of the 2019 Women’s March
For many, attending the annual Women's March last January was the right way to set off the new year with hope and enthusiasm. Thousands of people from all backgrounds in LA County and across the state came together to demonstrate in Downtown LA on pressing women's issues at…
A Conversation with Dr. Martín Burt, Founder of Poverty Stoplight
Poverty Stoplight is a tool and platform that can be used to enable families to self-assess their levels of poverty and subsequently develop strategies for growth. The tool generates maps that will show the multi-dimensional ways in which individuals are socio-economically challenged and enables them to strengthen themselves…