“At the beginning of this pandemic everything we were doing as an EMT became 10 times harder.” Twenty-six-year-old Reyna M. has been working as an EMT and front line worker throughout this current Covid-19 crisis. On an unseasonably warm November day she sits on a step at a park in Chicago and shares parts of […]
I am so grateful to be featured again on the World Relief 2020 Gift Guide: Made for Change. “At World Relief, we believe that every single one of us is made for change — both in our own lives and in communities across the globe. This holiday season, we’ve created a list of companies and products that […]
Partnering with Styles 4 Kidz continues to be some of my favorite work and journeying with this organization is a privilege. We have watched this organization inspire, empower, and serve their community over the last 10 years. They have still expanded in exciting ways this past year despite restrictions and hardship. S4K is a movement […]
Styles 4 Kidz is an organization you want to know about & support. They are creating so much more than fabulous hairstyles. S4K is hair care with heart. S4K’s mission is to provide high-quality, compassionate hair care education and services for kids with textured hair in foster care and transracial adoptive or biracial families. I […]
Anna Gonzalez is a storyteller based in Chicago who uses her creative and administrative gifts to share stories through various projects including the Tethered Project. You can find her work at It Me Anna Mari. She describes her passion, “From paintbrush to pixels, I use the tools available to tell stories and make beautiful things. Taking inspiration […]
We are doing school like never before; remote or online learning has been required because of the current pandemic and so many of us have had to shift our lives in ways we never planned. There is a lot of loss for students, teachers, parents, and community members but there are also amazing educators rising […]