IN THE WORDS OF YOLANDA, “IF I AM GOING TO WRITE MY LIFE STORY IT WOULD BE A COMEDY, DRAMA, TRAGEDY, LOVE STORY.” The past two years have not been easy for Yolanda. During this time she went through divorce, being a single parent, finding love, losing her husband to Alzheimer’s, recovering from grief and depression, to finding love again…
Recent news has highlighted the fact that Covid-19 does not discriminate and has affected People of Color at a disproportionate rate. We hear the bad news, but we yearn for good news. Today, we want to honor Dr. Anderson Torres Ortiz, the CEO of R.A.I.N Total Care Inc for all he does for our community…
Carmen Baez is a doer. A get stuff done type of person. An “I’m gonna do it myself because I can leader.” She is the founder of PRxPR – a private, non-partisan, no overhead fund purposefully created to help rebuild Puerto Rico…
Henry serves as Program Manager for The Peace Exchange- Chicago, where he leads the Peace Builder leadership development program that engages youth from Chicago’s West and Southside communities in training and international travel to study nonviolent social movements…
Maribel Rivera is an educator, leader and social justice advocate. She has served the Chicago Public School as a bilingual teacher, coach, assistant principal and dual language specialist for over two decades…
Ghadeer Garcia is the Executive Director of The BrandLab in Kansas City, whose mission is to change the face and voice of the marketing and advertising industry…
Bilingual Clinician, Family Stabilization Program – MSW, LSW at Family Intervention Services Inc. Ricardo is the father to two boys and loves being a Dad…
