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AWI Scholarship recipient Madison Kossow founded Mission Mutt Dog Rescue to tackle the pet overpopulation crisis one pup at a time. For Madison Kossow, the greatest benefit of attending virtual high school during the COVID-19 pandemic was that the less demanding schedule freed up her time to foster more than 30 cats, dogs, and rabbits.
Every day, Washington, DC, residents grapple with a shortage of affordable housing, with nearly half considered “rent burdened”—meaning rent swallows more than 30 percent of their gross income. The additional costs associated with pet ownership can put affordable housing in the District out of reach, leaving many pet-owning renters facing the possibility of having to
Elias Weiss Friedman—creator of the wildly popular social media brand, The Dogist—begins This Dog Will Change Your Life by describing how his Labrador retriever, Oreo, saved his life when he was a toddler by herding him back on the sidewalk after he got lost in the neighborhood. The book, written with former New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, also explores