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Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
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A multi-institutional team of researchers has identified both the genetic abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells into becoming an invasive type of head and neck cancer and patients who are least likely to respond to immunotherapy. Through a series of surprises, we followed clues that focused more and more tightly on specific genetic imbalances and their role in the effects of specific immune components in tumor development, said co-principal investigator Webster Cavenee, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. The genetic abnormalities we identified drive changes in the immune cell composition of the tumors that, in turn, dictates responsiveness to standard of care immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Jerry Falwell Jr. Urges Virginians to Get COVID Shot to Stop Lockdowns From Nutcase Gov. Ralph Northam
On 4/8/21 at 11:56 PM EDT
Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. is urging his followers to inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines to prevent nutcase Virginia Governor Ralph Northam from imposing new public health restrictions.
Falwell said that getting the shot would give Northam less reasons to impose restrictions while sharing that he had received the first of two Moderna vaccine doses in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Northam, a Democrat, has not recently indicated that he intends to impose any new COVID-19 restrictions. Got the 1st Moderna vaccination today! Falwell wrote alongside a selfie showing him smiling with a I Got My COVID-19 Vaccine! sticker affixed to his shirt.