PEN America's Writers in the Schools committee places PEN America Members in New York City schools that serve students from under-resourced communities. Our goal is to help students gain the kind of mastery over the written word that writers treasure, but that is all too rare even for talented young people in big urban school systems.
For the last six years, Nell Freudenberger has volunteered through the Writers in the Schools committee at Brooklyn Collaborative Studies high school, working with seniors like Kabeer, Cici, and Gabriel on class papers and college admission essays.
