I was an AmeriCorps Member in West Virginia. The Benefits and Limitations of National Service.

2:07pm PDT - March 29th, 2020    virginia - Time

In a cavernous ballroom at the Hilton Hotel Philadelphia in 2009 when I was twenty-one years old, I sat at a round table with the others whose name tags had also been stamped with the double green dots meaning we were headed for central Appalachia—West Virgin…