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A grant from Southland RISE (Resilience Initiative to Strengthen and Empower) — a joint violence recovery and trauma care program run by UChicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care — helped fund Male Mogul Initiative's summer “Be a Mogul” program.

Ashlyn Sparrow wants young people from Chicago’s South Side to take her job someday. As the Assistant Director of the Weston Game Lab at the University of Chicago, Sparrow is a game designer who is always eager to show young people that they too can turn their personal interests into fulfilling careers.

Benjamin, who’s originally from Oakland, California, has worked with preschoolers as a Jumpstart activity leader and classroom aide at Emmett Till Math and Science Academy in Woodlawn since her first year at UChicago.

Candace Henley, founder of the Blue Hat Foundation, is helping to shape the creation of the city's first freestanding clinical cancer center, initially as a member, and now as president of UChicago Medicine's Community Advisory Council (CAC).

In the five years that she’s worked with the University of Chicago’s Neighborhood Schools Program (NSP), Bronzeville principal Mellodie Brown says that in addition to the increased academic perform...

The three-week, non-credit course Deairra Fox-Brown participated in aims to show City Colleges of Chicago students paths to four-year STEM degrees and help address the underrepresentation of minority students in science and engineering.