Savannah DeGroot doesn’t like to sit still. The fourth-year anthropology student normally can be found running from class to class and meeting to meeting—at least during non-COVID-19 times. And the groups and activities she finds most important are the ones that allow her to do work that is near and dear to her heart.

When the Des Moines-area resident arrived on the University of Iowa campus for her first year, she didn’t know what she planned to study. But life experiences, including being homeless from her sophomore year of high school through her freshman year of college, were pointing her in the right direction.

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