• Moon Pads Provides Sustainable Period Products to Tibetan Nomads,Grace Kiehnle

    Moon Pads Provides Sustainable Period Products to Tibetan Nomads

    Meg Ferrigno had already been living and working among nomadic Tibetans for years when she went on the service trip that would change everything. “I was translating for a midwife,” Ferrigno recalls. “We saw over 100 patients and every single one of them was reporting severe infections and horrible s

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  • The Local Activist Caring for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence,Grace Kiehnle

    The Local Activist Caring for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence

    Six days before 9/11, Dilkhwaz Ahmed arrived in the US from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to attend a conference. Ahmed, who had opened one of the first women’s domestic violence shelters in Iraq, applied for asylum after the attack, knowing she couldn’t go back. She already received threats at home

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  • Team Behind Cori Trattoria Going Big in La Jolla,Nicolle Monico

    Team Behind Cori Trattoria Going Big in La Jolla

    La Jolla is getting delicious. Over the past few years, the tony enclave has bumped up its food and beverage prowess, with openings like Wayfarer Bread, Marisi, Paradisaea, and Le Coq lining up one after the other in a culinary competition that frankly, we’re all winning. That’s not even mentioning

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