Mckayla Warwick, C'20, has been announced as a recipient of the 2020 President's Engagement and Innovation Prize for Collective Climb: Collective Climb aims to increase economic prosperity among communities in West Philadelphia through a novel financial literacy initiative and innovative debt forgiveness model. Kwaku, Mckayla, and Hyungtae will adapt and create a culturally relevant and historically inflected financial literacy program that simultaneously connects, empowers, and celebrates the West Philadelphia community. Their debt reduction model centers around “community pots,” collections of monetary contributions that leverage collective wealth to obliterate debt. Kwaku, Mckayla, and Hyungtae are being mentored by Glenn Bryan, Assistant Vice President of Community Relations in Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs.
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