Touch Grass: The Power of the Tangible
A low-fi instrumental softly plays in the background. Conversations carry throughout the room, some heavy and some light, but all with love and mutual respect. People speak about grief, loss, love, and the longing to belong. Others sit in quiet reflection. Laughter is a constant as people connect on the unique memories of what makes Philadelphia feel like home.
Lessons Learned in Walking Our Grief with Young Adults
At the Wealth and Work Future’s Lab’s Media Design Fellowship Program, we have been very intentional about our focus on developing knowledge and awareness of how grief impacts people, specifically the lives of young people in the city of Philadelphia.
Preconditions for Possibility: What Will It Take to Seed a Different Economic Future?
At the Wealth and Work Futures Lab (WWFL), one of our central inquiries revolves around what we call the preconditions for possibility.
Guarded Yet Hopeful: Young Philadelphians on Place, Loss, and Possibility
According to the Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model, 1 in 4 Black youth in Philadelphia will lose a parent or sibling by the age of 25.
The Intersection of Constraint and Grief: Rethinking Opportunity, Work, and Wealth
For too long, our national conversations around poverty, workforce development, economic mobility, and even at times our work, has hinged on a singular question: How do we lift people out of poverty?