Helping the homeless, in high school and college
For Sam Greenberg ’14, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter was the place where he felt truly comfortable. This was in large part because he had started volunteering at the shelter before he even came to Harvard. Greenberg graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin, the only public high school in Cambridge, in 2010. His first experiences with the homeless shelter run by Harvard students came through Club Four, an extracurricular group that allows Rindge and Latin students to volunteer cooking dinners there. Today, Greenberg works full-time as co-director of Y2Y, a shelter opened just last year for youths struggling with homelessness. When Greenberg joined Club Four in his sophomore year of high school, the club had just been formed. It got its start when John Chen, a Harvard senior, began working as a student teacher for Barbara Weaver in the high school’s history department. At the time, the high school was divided into...