Twenty-three years ago, soon after starting medical school, Vanessa Landegger made the difficult choice to leave. Becoming an obstetrician/gynecologist had been her longtime dream, but so had starting a family. And with her first child — eight-month-old...
There’s a word that carries deep cultural meaning in Awa Cisse’s native Senegal; Téranga, which comes from the Wolof language, connotes the values of selflessness and generosity, and the importance of giving back to one’s community.
For Cisse, the word...
Growing up in Miami, Laura Guerra-Lopez remembers peppering her parents with questions about their native Venezuela. She was inquisitive by nature and their only child, so they welcomed her curiosity about the political and economic chaos gripping the...