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LaValla Wilson knows what it looks like. Students scraping together pennies and still coming up short. Students who don’t have anywhere to go over the winter break. Students who won’t discuss exactly what the problem is. “There’s a stigma,” Wilson says. “In higher education, homeless students don’t want to be identified.” Read more from the […]

On March 5, 2019, during Pizza Tuesday in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University, LaValla Wilson conducted a focus group to begin the initial test of Dream Machine. Read more at Religious Studies

“[Dr. Wilson] was awarded the Student Innovation Fellowship (SIF) to develop a mobile-first website named Dream Machine for at-risk and homeless youth to have a resource and a mobile location to identify housing, vocational training, and college admission resources. The purpose of the application is to provide a roadmap for a positive and productive future

In the College of Arts and Sciences Student Spotlight, LaValla Wilson, gives an update on her SIF Fellowship Project, the mobile-first website Dream Machine. Q: “Have there been any changes or development to your plan since 2017?” LaValla Wilson: “Yes, there has been one major change from the initial concept of the site. I wanted

“Michael Murphy, an assistant to Cobb Chairman Mike Boyce, told the Marietta Daily Journal on Monday that his boss had squeezed plans to fund a homeless camp into a draft of the next fiscal year’s budget [. . .] The idea for the encampment, Murphy said, came after he, Commissioner Lisa Cupid, and County Manager

“Religious Studies student LaValla Wilson had a dream to guide youth faced with homelessness through their academic experiences.  Now thanks to the Student Innovation Fellowship Program, she’s one step closer to fulling that dream through the development of a homeless youth app: the Homeless Youth Resource Site.  ‘I want to empower youth experiencing homelessness by