

YWCA Sojourner's Success Story
When I walked into the children’s rec room at the YWCA Sojourner’s Shelter for Homeless Women & Families, a beaming, polite, charming wo


Leading Change: KOMAX Business Systems
KOMAX has made a huge impact in the community. They’ve raised nearly $150,000 granting wishes for children with serious illness through the

Hispanic Heritage Month Reflections
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month was a hard sell for me in years past. Nevertheless, I finally get it. I finally know the celebration is


Debby Weinstein: Why I Race
Why is the YWCA mission to eliminate racism so important? Why do we race to end racism on April 28?


Leading Change: AMFM Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers
As a 2018 Leader for Change, Fonda & John Elliot of AMFM Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers are making a significant difference in our


Kitty L. Dooley: Why I Race
I race because societal, structural and institutional racism, prejudice and discrimination are alive, and in some respects, thriving in West


Todd Dorcas: Why I Race
As a child I spent my formative years growing up in Detroit, Michigan and New Jersey just outside Philadelphia. It was not until around the


Don Wilson: Why I Race
When I was asked the question why I race it made me think about the definition of the word “race”. The word clearly has more than one meanin


Tara Martinez: Why I Race
Over the last few years I have been invited to sit at the table for the discussion and action of racial justice here in the mountain state.


Chris Kessell: Why I Race
It is the right thing to do. When I was a young child growing up in St. Albans WV, my mother and father would consistently tell my brother a