At Values Based Lecture, Richardson Explores the Meaning of ‘Care for Our Common Home’

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From Georgetown University:

As one of the Spirit of Georgetown values, “Care for Our Common Home” also served as the title for this year’s Values Based Lecture, an annual tradition at the School of Nursing.

Sponsored by the School of Nursing Committee on Mission & Values and Campus Ministry, the April 10 lecture was given by Brenda Lee Richardson, coordinator for the Anacostia Parks & Community Collaborative.

“My common home involves the people who live in disfavored communities,” Richardson said. “I don’t call our communities marginalized, I don’t call them vulnerable, I don’t call them overburdened, because I got tired of other people dictating who we were.

“I always refer to us as ‘disfavored,’ and we’re anxiously awaiting the opportunity to be showered with favor, not only as it relates to our health — physical and mental health — but as it relates to our education, employment, poverty, everything,” she added.