Listening to Syracuse: A Student Helps Shape a Community Needs Assessment

Campus & Community Leah Kim is helping a local organization assess data about community services by taking part in listening sessions. (Photo by Amy Manley) Campus & Community Listening to Syracuse: A Student Helps Shape a Community Needs Assessment Maxwell School graduate student Leah Kim is putting public service into practice through a new Lender Center for Social Justice partnership with PEACE, Inc. Diane Stirling Nov. 11, 2026 Estimated Reading Time: Share × Video Player This fall, Leah Kim ’26, G ’27, has been listening to Syracuse-area residents tell her what works in their neighborhoods and where the help runs out. Kim, a Master of Public Administration candidate in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is a Lender Center for Social Justice intern helping collect and analyze that input for PEACE, Inc., Onondaga County’s federally designated Community Action Agency.

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