Rodlyn-mae Banting

Oct 31, 2024 | madison365.com | Rodlyn-mae Banting

There is a photo in Rashod Taylor’s Little Black Boy photography series entitled “LJ and his Fort” wherein a young boy lays on a carpeted floor under a makeshift blanket fort. Shirtless, the boy stares somberly into the camera, resting his head on one arm while the other stays close to his chest. It would be difficult not to miss the fact that one of the linens making up the boy’s fort is an American flag — at times a symbol of freedom, and at others, simply the illusion of it.

Oct 17, 2024 | channel3000.com | Rodlyn-mae Banting

Each year, we enlist an outside company to determine the best places to work in the greater Madison area — an accolade with a definition that shifts annually as employees and employers’ goals grow and change. With the help of employee-engagement software company Quantum Workplace, we’ve identified the top 20 Madison companies of 2024 based on metrics such as team dynamics, trust in leadership and engagement outcomes.

Oct 9, 2024 | madison365.com | Rodlyn-mae Banting

Yee Leng Xiong was a shy, introverted high schooler. He was always interested in politics, but he never thought he could one day join the ranks. Born in the city of Wausau and raised in the village of Weston to two refugee parents, he never thought of himself as a leader, or someone who could be a voice for the voiceless. Until one day, sitting in AP government class at DC Everest High School, his teacher said something along the lines of, “Any of you can run for office.

Oct 4, 2024 | madison365.com | Rodlyn-mae Banting

Earlier this summer, local real estate agent and nonprofit executive Ian Carter was named co-director of Own It — Building Black Wealth, a local organization that brings together professionals in the real estate, banking, and financial industries to help increase generational wealth in Black communities through homeownership. “For me, it was just a natural transition, because Own It really embodies my big why,” Carter said.

Sep 26, 2024 | madison365.com | Rodlyn-mae Banting

Four weeks into the fall 2024 semester, Edwin “TJ” Tjardes says he’s successfully dodged “freshmanitis”—the lack of motivation that college first-year students sometimes feel for school work as they join a vibrant new campus environment. As an intended biology major at the University of Iowa, Tjardes has spent the past few weeks diving into his pre-medical studies, making new friends, and getting involved in extracurricular activities.