Walking meetings enhance creativity and collaboration, and they’re good for your health, too! Here are some tips for planning one.
Active commute modes—walking, biking, and even taking transit—are good for our health, the environment, and our communities.
Why do you walk, and what role does walking play in your life? There are so many reasons to walk: It’s easy, it’s free, it’s good for you, and it’s better for the environment.
By day, Birch Thomas is vice president of finance for a small company in Georgetown. She loves the precision of numbers and balance sheets and is good at what she does, but her day job doesn’t define her. When Birch Thomas is really “on,” she’s out with her camera taking pictures.
As an outreach specialist in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Va., Clifton Chaney supports some of the community’s most vulnerable people. Learn how he helped one homeless man obtain supportive services.
Learn how public artist Cliff Garten developed his monumental LED artwork “Gravity and Grace” for Rosslyn’s Central Place Plaza and find out how the renowned sculptor felt about working in a new medium.
Four-time Emmy award-winning reporter and T.V. news anchor Kimberly Suiters has reveled in her role as a consumer advocacy journalist determined to expose injustice and alert the public to dangerous or unsafe products. Learn more about some of her most impactful stories.
Journalist and former Washington Post staff writer Liza Mundy has interviewed a former president, a vice president and many well-known U.S. senators. She has written four books, including a biography of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Learn more about this talented writer and find out which piece of writing she considers her best.
Ever wonder how a TV meteorologist arrives at a forecast? There's a lot more to it than simply reading computer-generated reports. In this short interview, Emmy Award-winning meteorologist Bill Kelly shares how he and his team at WJLA-TV in D.C. go about predicting the weather.
Critically acclaimed Afro-Latina singer-songwriter Xenia Rubinos sings exuberant, danceable music. But listen closely and you'll realize that she's also taking a stand on social injustice and issues of identity, race and class.
More than 35 years ago, work on Dark Star Park began on the former site of a gas station in Rosslyn. Today, Dark Star Park is one of the neighborhood’s hidden treasures that is special for so many reasons.
Rabia Kamara founded Ruby Scoops Ice Cream & Sweets out of D.C.'s Union Kitchen in 2014. Learn more about this hard-working and inspiring young woman.
This research brief discusses promising programs for delaying early marriage of young and adolescent girls in resource-poor countries who are often given little or no choice about whom or when they marry.
This research brief discusses the unique challenges HIV-infected young people 10 to 24 present to policymakers, program planners and health care providers.
Born into a family of sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India, Sharada's world was shaken when she was diagnosed with HIV. The single mother of three daughters, she didn't know how she would survive. Thankfully, a family-focused program called Balasahyoga helped ensure that the girls remained in school and that the family continued to have an income and support for their basic needs.
This research brief provides an overview of injecting drug use among people younger than 25 and offers details on public health programs designed to help them.
Learn more about a partnership between the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and two local elementary schools and find out why museum learning can be a valuable component of arts education for children.
What inspires an artist and how does she make art? In this short interview, Arkansas artist Kathleen Holder shares details of her creative process.
