Captured: Live-in Life: Northwestern’s faculty-in-residences

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Elizabeth Lenaghan is the faculty-in-residence for the North Area. Lenaghan and her husband, Jason Roberts, serve as live-in support for students, and try to cultivate community for their residents in a non-academic setting.

The two were in sister graduate programs at the School of Communication and met in a class about visual culture in their first quarter. In August 2019, Lenaghan became the faculty-in-residence at Elder Hall.

Ava Mandoli, Reporter

Living where you work may seem astonishing to some, but Northwestern currently has five faculty-in-residences who do just that. They are developing new senses of family through their interactions with students, while also raising their own families. The Daily got to know three of them.

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