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- Title
- Leonard Hyater Interview, March 31, 2015
- Date
- March 31, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY: I interviewed Leonard Hyater at the Church of the Epiphany Street Sense Offices. Mr. Hyater is a writer and vendor of Street Sense. Mr. Hyater talked about his experience in communication related jobs throughout his life and his belief in working study programs. A major struggle Mr. Hyater has is Type 2 Diabetes; he describes the difficulty in maintaining the appropriate diet and even describes instances where he felt discriminated against because of his medical condition. Towards the end of the interview he also accounts a time he was called boy by his supervisor, who was younger than him. Mr. Hyater also expresses aversion to working for anyone but himself multiple times during the interview. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Country
- United States
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1546