where is dasani from invisible child now

Of all the distressing moments in Invisible Child, Andrea Elliotts book about Dasani Coates, the oldest of eight children growing up in a homeless shelter in New She's transient." It makes me feel like theres something going on out there, she says. You get birthday presents. New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott spent nearly a decade following Dasani and her family. Her husband also had a drug history. Her siblings are her greatest solace; their separation her greatest fear. But nonetheless, my proposal was to focus on Dasani and on her siblings, on children. I don't want to really say what Dasani's reaction is for her. The people I hang out with. Some girls may be kind enough to keep Dasanis secret. But nothing like this. Have Democrats learned them? And they agreed to allow me to write a book and to continue to stay in their lives. If danger comes, Dasani knows what to do. I mean, that is one of many issues. Their voucher had expired. The only way to do this is to leave the room, which brings its own dangers. Journalist Andrea Elliott followed a homeless child named Dasani for almost a decade, as she navigated family trauma and a system stacked against her. And they did attend rehab at times. You're not supposed to be watching movies. And the more that readers engage with her, the clearer it becomes that every single one of these stories is worthy of attention., After nearly a decade of reporting, Elliott wants readers to remember the girl at her windowsill every morning who believed something better was out there waiting for her.. Nearly a year ago, the citys child protection agency had separated 34-year-old Chanel Sykes from her children after she got addicted to opioids. The thumb-suckers first: six-year-old Hada and seven-year-old Maya, who share a small mattress. So her principal, kind of, took her under her wing. Invisible Child chronicles the ongoing struggles of homelessness, which passes from one generation to the next in Dasanis family. I mean, this was a kid who had been, sort of, suddenly catapulted on to the front page of The New York Times for five days. It is also a story that reaches back in time to one Black family making its way through history, from slavery to the Jim Crow South and then the Great Migrations passage north. What is crossing the line? There was no sign announcing the shelter, which rises over the neighbouring projects like an accidental fortress. I think that when you get deeper inside and when you start to really try your best to understand on a more intimate level what those conditions mean for the person that you're writing about, so you stop imposing your outsider lens, although it's always gonna be there and you must be aware of it, and you try to allow for a different perspective. She lives in a house run by a married couple. And welcome to Why Is This Happening? (LAUGH) I don't know what got lost in translation there. Chris Hayes: We don't have to go through all of the crises and challenges and brutal things that this family has to face and overcome and struggled through. Children are not the face of New Yorks homeless. Chris Hayes: Yeah. And I was trying to get him to agree to let me in for months at a time. Child Protection Services showed up on 12 occasions. She felt that the streets became her family because she had such a rocky childhood. Clothing donations. It is a story that begins at the dawn of the 21st century, in a global financial capital riven by inequality. Dasani's roots in Fort Greene go back for generations. But to Dasani, the shelter is far more than a random assignment. This is the type of fact that nobody can know. The street was a dangerous place. So that's continued to be the case since the book ended. Dasani squints to check the date. Each home at the school, they hire couples who are married who already have children to come be the house parents. Elliott first met Dasani, her parents and her siblings in Brooklyns Fort Greene neighborhood in 2012. On mornings like this, she can see all the way past Brooklyn, over the rooftops and the projects and the shimmering East River. Over the next year, 911 dispatchers will take some 350 calls from Auburn, logging 24 reports of assault, four reports of child abuse, and one report of rape. Then Jim Ester and the photographer (LAUGH) who was working with me said, "We just want to shadow you.". I think that what is so striking about the New York that she was growing up in, as compared to, for instance, the New York of her mother Chanel, also named for a bottle of liquid, (LAUGH) is that Chanel grew up in East Brooklyn at a time when this was a siloed community, much like what you are describing about Henry Horner. This is an extract Right? Then the New York Times published Invisible Child, a series profiling a homeless girl named Dasani. Except for Baby Lee-Lee, who wails like a siren. We burn them! Dasani says with none of the tenderness reserved for her turtle. I still am always. So at the time, you know, I was at The New York Times and we wrestled with this a lot. Here in the neighbourhood, the homeless are the lowest caste, the outliers, the shelter boogies. Every inch of the room is claimed. Then she sets about her chores, dumping the mop bucket, tidying her dresser, and wiping down the small fridge. Luckily, in this predawn hour, the cafeteria is still empty. I nvisible Child is a 2021 work of nonfiction by Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist Andrea Elliott. If they are seen at all, it is only in glimpses pulling an overstuffed suitcase in the shadow of a tired parent, passing for a tourist rather than a local without a home. And at the same time, what if these kids ten years from now regret it? And I met Dasani right in that period, as did the principal. Lee-Lees cry was something else. And then you have to think about how to address it. And we're gonna talk a little bit about what that number is and how good that definition is. "Invisible Child" follows the story of Dasani, a young homeless girl in New York City. Andrea Elliott is a investigative reporter at The New York Times, (BACKGROUND MUSIC) a Pulitzer Prize winner. I do, though. She has a full wardrobe provided to her. It doesn't have to be a roof over my head. The west side of Chicago is predominantly Black and Latino and very poor. Sometimes it'll say, like, "Happy birthday, Jay Z," or, you know. This is where she derives her greatest strength. (LAUGH) And the market produces massively too little affordable housing, which is in some ways part of the story of Dasani and her family, which is the city doesn't have enough affordable housing. It's now about one in seven. We see a story of a girl who's trying to not escape, she says. So thats a lot on my plate with some cornbread. Sept. 28, 2021. (LAUGH) You know? We're gonna both pretend we've seen movies. It's a really, really great piece of work. There's a huge separation that happens in terms of the culture that people consume, the podcasts they listen to or don't listen to, the shows they watch. And so she wanted a strong army of siblings. She was a single mother. I want to be very clear. When braces are the stuff of fantasy, straight teeth are a lottery win. Chanel thought of Dasani. After that, about six months after the series ran, I continued to follow them all throughout. Dasani tells herself that brand names dont matter. I think she feels that the book was able to go to much deeper places and that that's a good thing. She would help in all kinds of ways. And I had an experience where someone I knew and was quite close to is actually an anthropologist doing field work in Henry Horner Homes after There Are No Children Here. No one on the block can outpace Dasani. And through the years of American journalism, and some of the best journalism that has been produced, is about talking about what that looks like at the ground level. And that was not available even a month ago. She will be sure to take a circuitous route home, traipsing two extra blocks to keep her address hidden. She became the first child in her family to graduate high school and she has now entered LaGuardia Community College. This is a story." And at that time in my career, it was 2006. At Hershey, I feel like a stranger, like I really don't belong. We suffocate them with the salt!. I have a lot of possibility. Elliotts book follows eight years in the life of She's seeing all of this is just starting to happen. And by the way, at that time this was one of the richest cities in the world. This is so important." At one point, one, I think it was a rat, actually bit baby Lele, the youngest of the children, and left pellets all over the bed. Sometimes she doesnt have to blink. She was so tender with her turtle. St. Patty's Day, green and white. But I don't think it's enough to put all these kids through college. She irons her clothes with a hair straightener. But, of course, there's also the story of poverty, which has been a durable feature of American life for a very long time. Just steps away are two housing projects and, tucked among them, a city-run homeless shelter where the heat is off and the food is spoiled. And we can talk about that more. The book is called Invisible Child. She is currently a student at LaGuardia Community College in New York. So she lived in that shelter for over three years. They did not get the help that many upper middle class Americans would take for granted, whether it's therapy, whether it's medication, whether it's rehab. This is usually the sound that breaks Dasanis trance, causing her to leave the window and fetch Lee-Lees bottle. Her siblings will soon be scrambling to get dressed and make their beds before running to the cafeteria to beat the line. She spent eight years falling the story Nowadays, Room 449 is a battleground. In the dim chaos of Room 449, she struggles to find Lee-Lees formula, which is donated by the shelter but often expired. Sleek braids fall to one side of Dasanis face, clipped by yellow bows. It was really so sweet. Baby Lee-Lee has yet to learn about hunger, or any of its attendant problems. And it also made her indispensable to her parents, which this was a real tension from the very beginning. It's something that I talked about a lot with Supreme and Chanel. In 2019, when the school bell rang at the end of the day, more than 100,000 schoolchildren in New York City had no permanent home to return to. She has hit a major milestone, though. Strangers do not see the opioid addiction that chases her mother, or the prisons that swallowed her uncles, or the cousins who have died from gang shootings and Aids. Radiating out from them in all directions are the eight children they share: two boys and five girls whose beds zigzag around the baby, her crib warmed by a hairdryer perched on a milk crate. I had been there for a while. But basically, Dasani came to see that money as something for the future, not an escape from poverty. Before that, she had been in and out of shelters with her family. And I just wonder, like, how you thought about it as you went through this project. But you have to understand that in so doing, you carry a great amount of responsibility to, I think, first and foremost, second guess yourself constantly. She was commuting from Harlem to her school in Brooklyn. How did you respond? Just the sound of it Dasani conjured another life. So I'm really hoping that that changes. You never know with a book what its ultimate life will be in the minds of the people that you write about or a story for that matter. Mice scurry across the floor. Chris Hayes: Yeah. And it is something that I think about a lot, obviously, because I'm a practitioner as well. Dasanis room was where they put the crazies, she says, citing as proof the broken intercom on the wall. A movie has scenes. Her name was Dasani. She likes being small because I can slip through things. She imagines herself with supergirl powers. (LAUGH) She would try to kill them every week. Andrea Elliott is a investigative reporter at The New York Times, (BACKGROUND MUSIC) a Pulitzer Prize winner. She's a hilarious (LAUGH) person. Child protection. And, really, the difference is, like, the kind of safety nets, the kind of resources, the kind of access people have--. "What were you thinking in this moment? You know, she just knew this other world was there and it existed and it did not include her. And that was a new thing for me. She hopes to slip by them all unseen. Andrea Elliott: I met Dasani while I was standing outside of Auburn Family Residence, which is a city run, decrepit shelter, one of two city run shelters that were notorious for the conditions that children were forced to live in with their families. Her mother had grown up in a very different time. Chapter 1. Andrea Elliott: So Milton Hershey School was created by America's chocolate magnate Milton Hershey, who left behind no children. She is among 432 homeless children and parents living at Auburn. Author Andrea Elliott followed Dasani and her family for nearly 10 years, Almost half of New Yorks 8.3 million residents are living near or below the poverty line. The mouse-infested shelter didnt deter Dasani from peeking out her windowsill every morning to catch a glimpse of the Empire State Building. One in five kids. Paired with photographs by colleague Ruth Fremson , it sparked direct action from incoming Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who had Dasani on the stage at his administrations inauguration in January 2014. And she would stare at the Empire State Building at the tower lights because the Empire State Building, as any New Yorker knows, lights up depending on the occasion to reflect the colors of that occasion. Why Is This Happening? There's so much upheaval. And at that time, I just had my second child and I was on leave at home in Washington, D.C. where I had grown up. We meet Dasani in 2012, when she is eleven years old and living with her parents, Chanel and Supreme, and Born at So let's start with what was your beat at the time when you wrote the first story? And those questions just remained constantly on my mind. She calls him Daddy. It was this aspiration that was, like, so much a part of her character. A stunning debut, the book covers eight formative years in the life of an intelligent and imaginative young girl in a Brooklyn homeless shelter as she balances poverty, family, and opportunity. Come on, says her mother, Chanel, who stands next to Dasani. Different noises mean different things. Thats what Invisible Child is about, Elliott says, the tension between what is and what was for Dasani, whose life is remarkable, compelling and horrifying in many ways. By the time most schoolchildren in New York City are waking up to go to school, Dasani had been working for probably two hours. And these bubbles get, sort of, smaller and smaller, in which people are increasingly removed from these different strata of American life. She was unemployed. And there's some poverty reporting where, like, it feels, you know, a little gross or it feels a little, like, you know, alien gaze-y (LAUGH) for lack of a better word. And then, of course, over time, what happens in the United States is that we become less and less materially equal. The mice used to terrorise Dasani, leaving pellets and bite marks. I was comfortable with that as a general notion of what I should be doing with my work, because I think that is our job as journalists. She felt the burdens of home life lift off her shoulders, giving her the opportunity to focus her energy on schoolwork, join the track team and cheerleading squad, and make significant gains in math. But I know that I tried very, very hard at every step to make sure it felt as authentic as possible to her, because there's a lot of descriptions of how she's thinking about things. She felt that she left them and this is what happened. Right? Chris Hayes: --to dealing with those. Its the point Elliott says she wants to get across in Invisible Child: We need to focus less on escaping problems of poverty and pivot attention to finding the causes and solutions to those problems. "I just want to be a fly on the wall. The rap of a security guards knuckles on the door. She's studying business administration, which has long been her dream. On one side are the children, on the other the rodents their carcasses numbering up to a dozen per week. For a time, she thrived there. Andrea Elliott: Okay. It is a story that begins at the dawn of the 21st century, in a global financial capital riven by inequality. Note: This is a rough transcript please excuse any typos. Andrea, thank you so much. (LAUGH) She said to me at one point, "I mean, I want to say to them, especially if it's a man who's saying this, 'Have you ever been through childbirth?'. She was just one of those kids who had so many gifts that it made her both promising in the sense of she could do anything with her life. First of all, I don't rely on my own memory. Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows reportedly was the longest ever published in the newspaper up to that time. And I did some quick research and I saw that, in fact, the child poverty rate remained one in five. She liked the sound of it. If you use the word homeless, usually the image that comes to mind is of a panhandler or someone sleeping on subway grates. Thats not gonna be me, she says. Now you are a very halal Muslim leader. A Phil & Teds rain shell, fished from the garbage, protects the babys creaky stroller. Dasani feels her way across the room that she calls the house a 520 sq ft space containing her family and all their possessions. Dasani's family of ten lives in one room of the Auburn Family Residence, a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. But the spacial separation of Chicago means that they're not really cheek and jowl next to, you know, $3 million town homes or anything like that. Chanel was raised on the streets and relied on family bonds, the reporter learned. Hidden in a box is Dasanis pet turtle, kept alive with bits of baloney and the occasional Dorito. Her hope for herself is to keep, as she's put it to me, her family and her culture close to her while also being able to excel.. Dasani is not an anomaly. This is the type of fact that she recites in a singsong, look-what-I-know way. And, actually, sometimes those stories are important because they raise alarms that are needed. ANDREA ELLIOTT, But every once in a while, when by some miracle she scores a pair of Michael Jordans, she finds herself succumbing to the same exercise: she wears them sparingly, and only indoors, hoping to keep them spotless. Chris Hayes: Yeah. Their sister is always first. But you know what a movie is. The ground beneath her feet once belonged to them. Chanel. Dasani would call it my spy pen. And yet, in cities, the fracturing happens within really close range. Best to try to blend in while not caring when you dont. Anyway, and I said, "Imagine I'm making a movie about your life. In New York, I feel proud. It's why do so many not? INVISIBLE CHILD POVERTY, SURVIVAL & HOPE IN AN AMERICAN CITY. Dasani opens a heavy metal door, stepping into the dark corridor. And just exposure to diversity is great for anyone. And so I did what I often do as a journalist is I thought, "You know, let me find a universal point of connection. It was in Brooklyn that Chanel was also named after a fancy-sounding bottle, spotted in a magazine in 1978. The light noises bring no harm the colicky cries of an infant down the hall, the hungry barks of the Puerto Rican ladys chihuahuas, the addicts who wander the projects, hitting some crazy high. I mean, I have a lot of deep familiarity with the struggle of substance abuse in my own family. It was a high poverty neighborhood to a school where every need is taken care of. She is 20 years old. In the blur of the citys streets, Dasani is just another face. It starts as a investigation into what basically the lives of New York City's homeless school children look like, which is a shockingly large population, which we will talk about, and then migrates into a kind of ground level view of what being a poor kid in New York City looks like. It literally saved us: what the USs new anti-poverty measure means for families, Millions of families receiving tax credit checks in effort to end child poverty, No one knew we were homeless: relief funds hope to reach students missing from virtual classrooms, I knew they were hungry: the stimulus feature that lifts millions of US kids out of poverty, 'Santa, can I have money for the bills?' And she wants to be able to thrive there. The book takes on poverty, homelessness, racism, addiction, hunger, and more as they shape the lives of one remarkable girl and her family. But under court supervision, he had remained with the children, staying clean while his wife entered a drug treatment programme. So in There Are No Children Here, you know, if you go over there to the Henry Horner Homes on the west side, you do have the United Center.

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