Engage Your Community
byOne of the most rewarding ways to get active is by engaging in one’s community. Opportunities to get involved are plentiful in the Madison area.
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Local Women Athletes Inspire
byAthletics can make women better collaborators and better leaders, experts say, and help them stay fit and focused amid all the other duties they still juggle in our society.
Swipe Right For Love … Or A Lost Cause
byAlthough there are plenty of skeptics and still-lonely hearts out there looking for “the one,” studies indicate that online dating is becoming more popular.
Event Planning with Panache
byBRAVA talked to a couple of Madison’s event coordinators to find out their best party planning tips and tricks to help make the most of life’s special moments.
Velvet Revolution
byOriginally loomed from pure silk and renowned as the fabric of the wealthy during Medieval and Renaissance times, velvet remains a staple of classy couture.
2019 Women to Watch: Real Women, Real Change
byThey are BRAVA’s 2019 Women to Watch, and they all have stories to tell. Keep your eyes on these gals, because they’ll be reshaping our communities into a more evolved form for some time to come.
Cristen Incitti: Expanding access to Girl Scouts
byCristen Incitti, chief operating officer for Girl Scouts of Wisconsin-Badgerland Council, wants to provide everyone the opportunity to reap the benefits of this empowering program.
Rachel Wilberding: Raising awareness about Parkinson’s disease
byIn Wisconsin, 15,000 people are living with Parkinson’s disease, a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. That’s prompting Rachel Wilberding to work to increase community awareness and access to help across the state.
Denise Ney: Research helping real people
byBecause of Denise Ney’s work as director of the dietetics program at UW-Madison, patients with the rare genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) now have tastier options to meet their extremely limiting dietary needs.
Nicole Meadowcroft: Giving the “exhilaration of independence” to those in need
byNicole Meadowcroft remembers that one of the first times she saw a German shepherd, which she’d always wanted to have as a pet, it was working as a seeing eye dog.
