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The Bigger Picture


Jun 3, 2021

Even before the COVID pandemic brought the notion of precarity to the mainstream, many populations in the U.S. and abroad faced life through different types of insecurity.

In 2019, after hearing  story after story from students, the Leonetti/O'Connell Family Foundation created an emergency aid program. The project was co-designed with researchers at the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and students experiencing precariousness.

Emergency Aid programs work! Using aid from this pilot program, students at USC and LACCD were able to continue schooling under tenuous circumstances.

So ... what now?

Our guests are:

  • Cara Esposito, ED of the Leonetti/O'Connell Family Foundation
  • Gary Painter, Director of the Price Center for Social Innovation
  • Hilary Olson, PhD Candidate, USC Price
  • Victoria Ciudad-Real, Project Specialist Price CSI