Interviews

Champaign teen Loréal Allen shares how positive summer programming leads to community building, academic success, and fun.

Champaign-Urbana's premier maker space is celebrating 10 years of bringing people together to imagine and create.

MTD bus operator Sarorn Chan makes an impact on the lives of her passengers every day. 

Inspired by her own experiences in the NICU, Paige Raab is on a mission to bring NICU families out of isolation and into a nest of community support. 

Rithika chats with Dr. Rex Hess of Epivara Incorporation at the U of I about the company's revolutionary new technology and the recent $250,000 grant they've received from the National Science Foundation. 

Joan Dixon is retiring after nearly 20 years as President and CEO of Community Foundation of East Central Illinois, and Angie Hatfield Marker is taking the organization into the future. 

Rithika talked with Ava Gomez, an employee at Cowboy Monkey, to learn about all the delicious menu items. 

“I have this ridiculous amount of faith in how amazing and how strong and how resilient our girls can be.”

“This [cannabis] is something that people want, and so it's great that we can provide that in a place that is easy and convenient,” says Jonah Rapino of NuEra.