Voices of Impact: Every Hand is a Hero
Every day, BU Terriers are launching new ideas. Whether it’s in the form of a tech solution, community-focused nonprofit, campus initiative, or creative project, these ideas are often born from our web of backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, perspectives, and passions.
In Innovate@BU’s new series, Voices of Impact, we’re asking students “why this idea and why you?” and “who or what is fueling your progress and pushing you to create meaningful impact?”
In the second installment of the series, meet Erin Sheehan (SSW’20) and Madeleine Pouw (SPH’20), co-founders of Every Hand is a Hero.
The idea for Every Hand is a Hero (EHIAH) was hatched in spring 2019, but Erin Sheehan and Madeleine Pouw have always been called to build programs for and provide support to those who are often forgotten about. Through the Innovate@BU Summer Accelerator, they launched their nonprofit, EHIAH, an organization that provides training to child welfare workers so they can recognize and intervene at the first sign of child sex trafficking.
