Shelter ─ Where Harvard Meets the Homeless

"This book about a homeless shelter run by Harvard students is also about topics that too often fall off our radar; how we treatu and ought to treatuthe marginalized and down and out among us, the particular, powerful contributions that young people can make to improving the lives of others, how young people develop mature ideals and, perhaps most essentially, what economic class means in America ... It's a book that brims with wisdom and humanity."-Dr. Richard Weissbourd, author of The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-International Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

"This is more than a compelling study of young students doing community service with a homeless population. It is an examination of life histories and narratives, class conflicts, the meaning of human care, and the discovery of self and community."-Dr. Thomas Cottle, author of Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in an Age of Distraction

"This highly readable in depth case study of a homeless shelter run entirely by college students has a lot to teach anyone concerned with the civic engagement of young people ... It reinforced my belief that given an opportunity, young people can, and will, do extraordinary things to improve their world."-Elizabeth Hollander, Executive Director, Campus Compact, 1997-2006

"Scott Seider's rich and insightful study of Harvard students who run a homeless shelter provides an informative portrait of today's young leaders and their struggle to understand and confront injustice."-Dr. Peter Levine, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, USA

Scott Seider is an assistant professor of education at Boston University where his research focuses on the civic development of adolescents and emerging adults.