Kabria Baumgartner, a professor of history and African diaspora at Northeastern, has long researched Black Americans throughout New England’s history. Now she’s sharing those stories by new public signage honoring historical figures and events such as Black Election...
A labor of love, Northeastern international business major Sailaja Joshi founded her children’s book publishing company in 2014 to introduce more stories about children of color. Then the COVID-19 pandemic limited paper supplies and shut down bookstores, forcing Joshi...
Jameson Johnson created Boston Art Review, which will be publishing its seventh edition this fall. In support of her startup, Johnson has received an inaugural $5,000 Innovator Award from Northeastern’s Women Who Empower inclusion and entrepreneurship initiative.
Sasha Shenk, who earned her Health Science degree in 2021, is one of 18 graduates to earn a Community Service Leadership award after she volunteered to help Boston high school students improve their writing and explore their creativity. In return, the students helped...
Lucie Gulino is collaborating with Equal Justice Works, a not-for-profit provider of legal services, to offer a first-of-its-kind clemency and family support project in Boston for people who earn lower incomes who are Black, indigenous, and people of color; and queer...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted ongoing disparities in health care, education and the economy for Massachusetts’ rapidly growing Latino community. Northeastern graduate Evelyn Barahona, who earned her international business degree in 1999, heads up a new...
In college, Christina McNeil says she was known for being good at two things: “complex variable equations and cookies.” Now a web producer and social media specialist in Northeastern’s College of Engineering, McNeil has been prolific in the latter.
Not another attack on our community, thought law professor and former trustee of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Margaret Woo, after reading a text from her brother last week. The message said something about a shooting near Atlanta that killed...
On any given day, small groups of five or so women are meeting on campus to work out together and pump each other up. These groups are composed of members of CHAARG, a national community of women that established its first chapter at Northeastern.
Northeastern alum Wendy Zinn is the senior vice president of the YMCA of Greater Boston on Huntington Avenue. The YMCA’s grab-and-go meal program has served more than three million meals to families during the pandemic.