Author: Mia Germain

  • Showly Nicholson Looks to a New Platform for Helping the Homeless

    Showly Nicholson Looks to a New Platform for Helping the Homeless

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Harvard Square is, in many ways, an excellent snapshot of the unique qualities that define the greater Boston area: the same street corners and T stations that are frequented by Harvard University’s most promising students, and homeless individuals who don’t know when they will get their next meal. These streets are also the breeding…

  • Matt Ganem: The Voice of the Silenced

    Matt Ganem: The Voice of the Silenced

    “I have a real bad history—I’m not a bad person, every crime I’ve ever committed was while I was on drugs.” “Any struggle makes you stronger if you overcome it,” Matt Ganem tells me. The man who sits across the table looks calm and collected, prepared to discuss his successful job, happy and healthy children,…