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1 month ago | 
forestparkreview.com | Jessica Mackinnon
Jennifer Malloy Quinlan is a force of nature – and when she’s on a mission, which she usually is, heaven help anyone who gets in her way.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
oakpark.com | Jessica Mackinnon
Candace Fleming has doggedly followed the twists and turns of her boundless curiosity to bring to life some of the most fascinating characters in American history. An Oak Park author of more than 20 books for children and young adults, Fleming has a special affinity for historical nonfiction that, while rooted in relentlessly researched facts, is as engaging as the most fantastical fiction.
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May 16, 2024 | 
oakpark.com | Jessica Mackinnon
From its humble beginning in 2010 as an informal community meeting organized by green pioneers Sally Stovall and her partner Dick Alton, One Earth Collective has grown to encompass a plethora of diverse programs dedicated to increasing awareness of the impact of climate change and inspiring action regarding the environment and social justice.
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May 8, 2024 | 
srhm.org | Jessica Mackinnon
On 6 May 2024, SRHM, in collaboration with Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) of Yale Law and Public Health Schools, conducted a webinar on the topic ‘What do oral contraceptives have to do with human rights abuses in sports?’ This webinar comes at a crucial time, days before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is scheduled to hear double Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya’s complaint on May 15, 2024, against regulations introduced by World Athletics in 2018,...
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Jessica Mackinnon
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May 16, 2023 | 
forestparkreview.com | Susan McKelvey |Jessica Mackinnon
Lawyers are not always portrayed as particularly altruistic in movies and television, but Oak Park-based Pro Bono Network is defying that often misguided stereotype by connecting attorneys interested in volunteering their legal expertise with individuals who need assistance the most — and can afford the least. Pro Bono Network (PBN) was founded in 2011 by a small group of local attorneys who were taking career breaks to be stay-at-home moms.
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May 15, 2023 | 
austinweeklynews.com | Stacy Coleman |Jessica Mackinnon
Lawyers are not always portrayed as particularly altruistic in movies and television, but Oak Park-based Pro Bono Network is defying that often misguided stereotype by connecting attorneys interested in volunteering their legal expertise with individuals who need assistance the most — and can afford the least. Pro Bono Network (PBN) was founded in 2011 by a small group of local attorneys who were taking career breaks to be stay-at-home moms.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
forestparkreview.com | Susan McKelvey |Jessica Mackinnon
Dr. Victoria Brander has dedicated much of her medical career to transforming the lives of individuals in developing countries who suffer from advanced joint disease. Co-founder of Operation Walk Chicago, Brander, a River Forest resident, recently returned from a weeklong medical mission in Vietnam, where she and a team of volunteers performed more than 40 free hip and knee replacement surgeries.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
austinweeklynews.com | Stacy Coleman |Jessica Mackinnon
(Editor’s note: This profile of BUILD’s Adam Alonso ran in the Weekly’s sister paper in Oak Park several weeks ago. To mark the Feb. 25 opening of the organization’s new 51,000 square foot, $21 million campus at Harrison and Laramie, we are offering it now.)Although he took a detour from an initial plan to become a doctor, Adam Alonso is saving, or at least changing, lives nonetheless.
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Jan 22, 2023 | 
srhm.org | Jessica Mackinnon
Written by Jyotika Rimal, Advocacy Officer, Menstrual Health/ Hygiene Partners’ Alliance (MHMPA) Nepal When the pandemic hit the whole world, everyone realized that global health needs to be “decolonized”.
