Author: Joyce Paich

Hero Women Rising aims to improve the conditions in which women and adolescent girls live in South Kivu province, eastern D.R. Congo.   To achieve this end, Hero Women Rising uses education and technology to amplify women’s voices; teach them to advocate for their rights and for the natural environment; build their economic capacity; and support the development of other community grassroots women’s organizations. Hero Women Rising...

World Mental Health Day is October 10. This is an especially critical year for bringing global awareness to mental health. It has been more than 18 months since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while life is returning to a sense of normalcy in some areas of the world, others are still experiencing high rates of transmission and hospital admissions. This unusual and unpredictable...

  The contributions of African American physicians and nurses in the advancement of medicine should be celebrated and not overlooked. The following are stories of African American women who pushed forward and made a difference.   Mary E. Mahoney was the first black woman to earn a professional nursing license. She was born in 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts to freed slaves who had moved to Boston from North...