Dr. Donna Beegle Interview by WISU-FM

Dr. Phil Glende, Head of Student Media at Indiana State University, interviewed Dr. Beegle, author of See Poverty, Be the Difference. Beegle explained her own impoverished background, born to a family of cotton pickers. She was not given the opportunity to access a proper education and found her teachers to be unhelpful, dropping out of school and getting married at 15. Beegle went on to turn her life around and gain a doctorate. She has devoted her life to figuring out what keeps the poorer classes in America from getting a proper education and to strike those barriers down. Beegle has worked in 49 states to study how poverty changes across the country. She spoke about what she has learned, how distanced social classes are in America, and what our government can do to make a change.

For more information about Dr. Beegle's organization visit
www.combarriers.com