In South Africa, COVID-19 compounds domestic violence crisis…and leaders fight back
By Kail Cohen October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. On average, every 60 seconds, twenty people are physically abused
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Rewriting 70,000 Individualized Education Plans puts Chicago Special Educators in a Bind
By Phoebe Rusch The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), signed into law in late March, granted education
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Mapping Vulnerability in Puerto Rico
Click this link to view the interactive map of Puerto Rico created by Kelsey Rydland, Isabel Sophia Dieppa, Martha Bayne
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To and from the common brick: Slow-motion disaster on Chicago’s South Side
SJNN Cycle 4 fellow Eiren Caffall recently published this lyrical longform reported essay, drawing on her SJNN research, on flooding and environmental racism in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood.
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Medill Explores Puerto Rico, 2019
In February of 2019 a dozen Medill MSJ students spent ten days in Puerto Rico as part of the Medill
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Sex ed in Little Village: A Yollocalli/SJNN partnership
This past year SJNN has been working with Yollocalli Arts Reach in Little Village on a multipronged exploration of sex
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Sex upside-down prevents what?: Misconceptions thrive when education is lacking
By Melissa Regalado In the city of Chicago lies the community of Little Village, a predominantly Latinx community of Mexican
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