Marshall-Riley Living Learning Community | Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Collaborating on Letters that Light the Path

In this week’s blog we share the latest progress report on “Lighting the Path – Letters from Black Men to Young Black Men and Boys.” After months of collaborating with a team of talented editors and writers, the AfroSolo Theatre Corps San Francisco and USF’s Marshall Riley Living-Learning Community are close to completing a book…

Centering the Marginalized

In this week’s blog, Zachary Sexton, McCarthy Fellow in San Francisco, describes the importance of communities dictating their own priorities and developing their own solutions. Keep reading to learn more about his experience with the Tenderloin Community Action Plan, empowering neighborhood residents to determine their own basic needs from their lived experience. I am Zachary…

Lifting our Community’s Voices

We are honored to have been awarded the Jesuit Foundation Grant, given to academic programming, curriculum development, and research projects which address USF’s Jesuit Catholic mission. This funding helps to underwrite the first year of “Amplifying San Francisco Voices: Building Bridges in CommUNITY Conversations,” a series of interdisciplinary dialogues that examine the major historical and…