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Age: (Did not respond) Occupation: Housing Program Manager at Northwest Compass, Inc. (full time); Substance Abuse and Gambling Counselor at SHARE (part-time); Licensed Professional Counselor Employer: Northwest Compass, Inc. Mt. Prospect; SHARE, Leyden Family Service, Hoffman Estates Civic involvement: Currently serving as Chairperson of the Schaumburg Peer Jury; Currently serving on the Governor's Taskforce for Social Emotional Learning; Service as D211 representative/liaison: Liaison to Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization (NSSEO); North Cook Division Resolutions Chairperson f...

ROCKFORD — For her final Black History Month announcement Friday afternoon, Guilford High School sophomore Kawaia Jackson shared the empowering words of civil rights and women's rights activist Dorothy Height. “I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom," the 15-year-old read over the schoolwide audio system. "I want to be remembered as one who tried.” And then, as if she was taking a cue from the longtime former president of the National Council of Negro Women herself, Jackson added her own conclusion to the announ...

The Equity podcast is growing Equity is celebrating its fourth birthday in a few weeks and closed 2020 with its biggest quarter to date. To celebrate and say thank you to our wonderful listeners who tune into us each and every single week, we’re growing upward and outward! First, as many of you have noticed, we’ve expanded the Equity team. Grace Mendenhall joined the production crew this year, initially helping cover for Chris Gates while he was out on paternity leave. But now Chris is back and so we’ve doubled our producer team. In classic startup fashion, a bigger team means we can ma...

This week, many teachers in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties are preparing to start getting their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

1 of 2 Sallie Morgan has touched  thousands of Rappahannock lives, whether as executive director of the Mental Health Association, injecting vital prevention programs and behavioral interventionists into the county's schools, taking the lead on area aging issues, or helping to create RAAC's No Ordinary Person — as former county administrator John W. McCarthy says "lifting up all of those who have had the extraordinarily good fortune to come into her orbit." By Luke Christopher Photographer: Luke Christopher