IN OUR OWN STREETS
byBy Rachel Werner “The Mojo and the Sayso” debuts in Madison Feb. 18 and “Real Stories about Race” is the pre-show event Feb. 20…
ENGAGING COMMUNITY
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH DANCE
byBy Leigh Mills IT’S A STARTLING STATISTIC. One in three women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. Since the worldwide…
Stopping Violence Against Women
byDon’t Miss: BRAVA’s February 2016 edition for an in-depth look at the issue of violence against women and how some local groups are working…
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
byBy Shelby Deering | Photographed by Kaia Calhoun IT SEEMS APPROPRIATE that leadership coach and motivational speaker Susan Young recently relocated to Madison…
Women to Watch: Colleen Butler
byBy Lisa Bauer COLLEEN BUTLER GREW UP IN A DIVERSE SMALL TOWN. “From as early as I can remember, we were talking about race at…
Women to Watch: Jasmine Zapata
byBy Rachel Werner DR. JASMINE ZAPATA confronts life’s fragility each day. As a pediatric resident at UW Health American Family Children’s Hospital, Zapata treats…
Women to Watch: Leslie Orrantia
byBy Marni McEntee ALMOST AS SOON AS Leslie Orrantia starts talking about her work and her goals, she notes that—unlike many of those she’s looking…
Women to Watch: Tu Le
byBy Hatheway Rawlinson A former fashion designer—for the houses of Liz Claiborne, Gap and Lands’ End—Tu Le now is the founder of the Madison Art…
Women to Watch: Jennifer Krueger
byBy Shelby Deering EVERYBODY NEEDS A MENTOR and role model. Jennifer Krueger Favour, a lieutenant with the Madison Police Department, has filled that role for…
Women to Watch: Julianne Carbin
byBy Candice Wagener JULIANNE CARBIN FIRST LEARNED about the National Alliance on Mental Illness during graduate school at UW-Madison. “I thought that was just amazing…