For the most part, you seldom hear about a person who begins their advocacy work at the young age of nine, let alone founding a nonprofit by the time they become a teenager. 16-year-old Makanaka Chikowero isn’t most people. “My advocacy work actually started in about...

For most people who aren’t used to presenting research to large groups, the idea of presenting at Harvard University about a new learning strategy may seem more than daunting. Yet, for Flossmoor native Alexis Hunter, as nerve wracking as it may have been it went as...

Five years ago when Sarah Lauch brought home Roo, a pit bull rescue dog, she learned he needed surgery. That surgery would, unfortunately, reveal that Roo had a type of bone cancer that was untreatable. “He was terminal. So we started a bucket list that went a little...