Mar 6, 2024 · Dasani Coates (left) and Andrea Elliott sign copies of “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City” on March 5, 2024, at Indiana Landmarks. The two spoke at a United Way of Central Indiana event.

Its middle school cultivates the interests of the “whole child,” for whom doors will open to the “public arenas of the world.” Packer’s students might learn something from Dasani, too.

Oct 8, 2021 · The invisible child of the title is Dasani Coates. We meet Dasani in 2012, when she is eleven years old and living with her parents, Chanel and Supreme, and seven siblings in one of New York City’s shelters for families experiencing homelessness.

Sep 28, 2021 · Her mother, Chanel Sykes, went as a child, leaving Brooklyn on a bus for Pittsburgh to escape the influence of a crack-addicted parent. Now 13-year-old Dasani is going, but to a different place —...

Oct 8, 2021 · Yet against this backdrop, and despite mockery from students at school when they discover her homelessness, Dasani still shines. A school counselor describes Dasani's intelligence as...

Apr 4, 2024 · The invisible child of the title is Dasani Coates. We meet Dasani in 2012, when she is eleven years old and living with her parents, Chanel and Supreme, and seven siblings in one of New York City’s shelters for families experiencing homelessness.

To that end, journalist Andrea Elliott published a series of five articles for the New York Times in 2013 that provided a window into the life of Dasani Coates, a child attending middle school while living in the city-run Auburn Family Residence shelter with her mother Chanel, her stepfather Supreme, and her siblings.

Feb 27, 2023 · At age 13 Dasani’s position almost as poster girl for poverty arguably helps her secure a place at a prestigious boarding school for disadvantaged children, founded by chocolatier Milton Hershey, who himself grew up poor.

Feb 22, 2025 · When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. As she learns to “code switch” between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places.

Dec 10, 2021 · Her deeply moving story about Dasani Coates – a resilient 11-year-old in Brooklyn with seven siblings, two parents and no home – ran on the front page of The New York Times for five days in December 2013.