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Abstract
Age when Interviewed: 31
Date of Interview: Fall 2012
Race: White
Gender: Female
Keywords: Housing insecurity, Food insecurity
ACE Factors: Parental separation or divorce
Shaleen is a White woman who moved to the Twin Cities as a young child and she participated in the Voices of Homelessness project as a junior at St. Catherine University.. Prior to transferring to St. Kate’s, she earned a G.E.D. and took community college courses. Before this, starting at age 13 and throughout her adolescence, she experienced homelessness and in her interview she discusses couch-surfing and sleeping under bridges, as well as eviction from various apartments, food insecurity, and poverty.
Date
9-2012
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