Dr. Shannon Jung has a longtime interest in housing, both academically and personally. Academically he was interested enough to explore federal responsibility for housing people with lower incomes (who could not afford housing) and wrote a dissertation on that topic. He explored the moral tradition on housing policy highlighted by Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, Walter Rauschenbush, Wendell Berry, and James Cone. During his graduate years at Vanderbilt, the University there was actively engaged in demolishing lower-income housing. Personally Shannon volunteers at Turning Points in Bradenton, Florida. There he takes food stamp (SNAP) applications and often hears stories of people who have become homeless. Some of these stories are devastating and leave him bewildered as to how people can survive in the absence of shelter. Shannon is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has served churches in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Florida. He has taught at colleges and seminaries in Tennessee, Virginia, Minnesota. Iowa, and Missouri. He is a Team Leader in STREAM and does research on affordable housing in Manatee County. He was a refugee for a brief period and has continued his interest in the consequences of being homeless. Among several books, he wrote one on Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality focused on successful work in the Manasota area.
Diversity & Inclusion Forum - Steve Ryan
Diversity & Inclusion Forum presents multiple interview formats of interesting people covering a wide spectrum of subjects with relevance to Diversity. We are bringing these many people into focus with Inclusion and the goal of helping the path to Equality. The people are multi ethnic from many backgrounds or groups, with their lifestyles by choice or circumstances.