Who We Are
Leslie T Grover, Phd
Leslie founded Assisi House in 2016. She is certified in Community Storytelling, Story Exchange Facilitation, and Narrative Medicine. She is a community-based participatory research expert, and she works with communities to conduct research, create actionable research designs, organize around community-identified issues, and create programs. An avid scholar-activist, her work is widely published on issues associated with health disparities, community polarization, and vulnerable populations. She is also a fiction writer. Her first novella, The Benefits of Eating White Folks, was released in April 2022.
reva i hines, phd
Reva is Vice President of Assisi House, Inc. She is certified in Community Storytelling, Group Facilitation, and Narrative Therapy. She is also a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge Campus (SUBR). An avid scholar-activist, she is widely published on issues of unhoused populations, vulnerable populations, and public health. She is the Founder of The Red Stick Bras and All Project, which works to provide hygiene items for unhoused women.