Dr. Margot Kushel: Warrior For The Homeless
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Dr. Margot Kushel is one of the nation’s leading researchers into geriatric homelessness, she approaches the topic with her Jewish values in mind. In 2006, Kushel co-wrote the first study on the issue, discovering that the average age of the homeless population in the United States was in the mid-50s. Since then, Kushel, who is 52, has been awarded tens of millions of dollars to research homelessness.
“It should shock us as a nation that we have this problem,” Kushel told the San Francisco Chronicle in a March 2019 profile. “It’s almost too painful to realize.”
Margot Kushel Image by Courtesy of Margot Kushel
What do you have for breakfast? A hard boiled egg
What’s the last thing you listened to on your phone? A new mix from Apple Music
Earliest Jewish memory: Seder with my grandparents
**Heroes:* Ruth Bader Ginsburg, some of the amazing housing activists I get to work with; and many others.
Favorite 2019 memory: Friday night dinners with my family
What is your favorite thing about being Jewish? Questioning everything
What app can you not live without? NYTimes on my phone!
Weekend ritual: Going for a long swim.
Follow Margot Kushel on Twitter, @mkushel
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