Dr. Denise Barkis Richter teaches Journalism/Mass Communication at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas. During the first summer session of 2006, ten students representing all four ACCD colleges will explore the issue of poverty--here in San Antonio and down in Mexico--for five intensive weeks. To travel and learn with us, click on my name in the upper-left contributors' list. Scroll down to my students' and my colleague's (Karen Marcotte) blogs and click away.