Sep 19 2022
Blueprint
Cameron Stevens’ wife drew a line in the sand. She was tired of “the other woman,” she said a laugh, referring to the company he’d founded in college. It was time …
SEPTEMBER 2022
Sep 16 2022
Field Note
When Kristen Leanderson Abrams, Senior Director for Combatting Human Trafficking at the McCain Institute, received an email from 17 Rooms asking her to co-lead a discussion on partnerships with a …
Sep 14 2022
Field Note
The data started rolling in and it wasn’t good. Wakiso, Uganda’s most densely populated district, was peaking in two worrying categories: hardest hit by Covid-19 infections and among the lowest vaccination …
Sep 12 2022
Field Note
Just before dawn, baker Sasipen Pan rises and slips into her kitchen in central Thailand. On a sparkling clean counter, she begins making bread—or sometimes brownies or meringue cookies—with a …
AUGUST 2022
Aug 26 2022
Human Impact
Growing up, Arlethia Brown never once ate in the school cafeteria. Her mom, a single parent in Camden, N.J., didn’t apply for free lunches because she didn’t want outsiders to know …
Aug 01 2022
Field Note
Habib Yakubu is talented at straddling divides. That make him valuable in the fight against pandemics. Though raised a Muslim, he attended a Christian school. Growing up in a low-income community …
JULY 2022
Jul 06 2022
Field Note
For more than two years, data derived from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid antigen tests on nasal swabs from individuals has been the primary source of data on Covid-19 …
JUNE 2022
Jun 28 2022
Human Impact
Fidel Aquino makes the finest fitted suits and guayaberas in all of Miami’s “Little Santo Domingo”—maybe all of the city itself. A young 72, Aquino trained with fellow Dominican designer Oscar …
Jun 24 2022
Field Note
As the Founder and Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Nigeria, Professor Christian T. Happi has been called a powerhouse of scientific …
Jun 06 2022
Blueprint
In mid-November 2020, as Covid-19 cases were rising and two thousand people were dying every day in the U.S., Americans needed hope. They got it. Hope arrived in a syringe. Effective …