Student Focus - Kendre Rodriguez '16

Social Venture Innovation Challenge

The East Side of Providence, Rhode Island is a tale of two cities. On one side, you have the historic Federalist Era architecture distinguishing the neighborhoods where Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design comprise the state’s intellectual and creative center. On the other hand, you have the blue-collar neighborhoods where successive generations of immigrants—Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Dominican, African, and Vietnamese—have worked to make a living for centuries.