The project aims at raising awareness and creating tangible, real information about homeless individuals to inform Rhode Island state policy. I, alongside members of the Brown Initiative for Policy's Community Health Team, finished a report on the health, fiscal, and other impacts of homelessness in Rhode Island. We have identified a number of policy priorities for the spring (when legislative session starts) as well as obtained records of past encampment clearings that will inform our policy work going forward. I set out initially to develop an activism project that would document the lives of homeless individuals living around my campus to raise awareness. After some meetings with local constituents and groups, I realized that this approach was more exploitative of homeless communities than it was beneficial to them. I reassessed my approach and committed myself to a research-based approach to the problem, identifying information that could be used in effective policy development. Even this information was at times difficult — I dealt with records requests issues and the overall struggles of mapping homelessness in Rhode Island. We collaborated, built campus community, and engaged in interesting discussions. I got to learn about other people's projects and took ideas that helped inform my work.