Originally published on Medium.com on June 15, 2016 By CrowdRise Megan Tucker found herself in the middle of the Syrian refugee crisis with the harsh Macedonian winter quickly bearing down. And what started as a fundraiser for warm clothes for displaced people has turned into something much bigger. The train…
Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on June 4, 2016 by Jon Greenberg and re-published here with their permission. We cannot make good decisions from a distance,” says Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization dedicated to fixing our broken criminal justice…
From a happy-go-lucky musical theatre teen, to surviving sexual abuse, a coma, six years without food or drink, and 27 surgeries, it’s been a very long, detoured journey, and it still isn’t over yet. But what makes the journey meaningful, and ultimately rewarding, is the ability to share, and know…
Originally published on MARKETPLACE.org on March 3, 2016 By Dan Gorenstein Note: This is the second of a three-part series about human trafficking and health care. You can find to the first part, about the challenges of identifying trafficking victims when they seek medical attention, here. Find the third part,…
