Alexandria Lafci: One-third of her Southeast D.C. students experienced homelessness
Alexandria Lafci · a16z Podcast | Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:40
Alexandria Lafci is the co-founder of New Story and a former Teach for America educator. She reflects on the prevalence of housing instability among her former students in Washington, D.C.
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“So I was a Teach for America teacher. I taught in Anacostia, which is in Southeast DC. So my students, about a third of them at some point in the year they were homeless, if not for the entirety of the year.”
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