Adina Lundy at TEDxURI 2022
Hope from the Edge
Adina talks about her grief while she took care of her mom, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s. As a method of coping with her troubles at home, she decided to engage in meaningful activity that was bigger than herself. Adina found comfort by volunteering to help children in foster care who did not have the luxury of feeling safe during their childhood. She observed that these children persevered through circumstances that were out of their control. Their resilience gave her hope in her personal time of despair as she coped with her mom’s illness.
Adina Lundy
Adrina Lundy is from Brownsville, Brooklyn. She earned a Master’s in Developmental Psychology from Harvard and is a lecturer here at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches human development, women and psychology, and multicultural psychology. Her research intersects at college degree completion for demographics underrepresented in higher education, the ways in which social capital is tethered to that effort, and, the criminalization of poverty vis a vis the foster care removal paradigm. As a restaurateur, after earning the baccalaureate, she provided employment, exclusively, to felons returning home.