Miscellaneous

Empathy Bytes

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous projects, interviews, and articles. This collection houses articles without accompanying interviews, as well as content that the Empathy Bytes team has collected outside of the context of a larger project. This includes older, uncategorized content from previous years of work.

Ringgold, Georgia: Lara Langston

By Hunter Copp | 2020-02-27

Lara Langston is from Ringgold, a town home to just over 3500 residents. Ringgold is a prime example of small town Georgia, where its residents live in a close-knit community.

Should unpaid internships be a thing of the past?

By Juliet Orth | 2021-03-04

Recently, the New York Post called attention to the fact that the National Football League, a 15.26 billion dollar organization, is offering unpaid internships for this summer. The public outcry all stemmed from a tweet posted by Jane Slater that detailed the opportunity and its unpaid nature. There was an immediate divide between those who saw the benefits of an unpaid internship and those who considered it to be a product of a persistent socioeconomic divide.