Part 1: Fifty-three-year-old Jon hit rock bottom on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. That day, Jon was an alcoholic with depression and bipolar disorder who worked and lived out of the side room of a car wash. The owners of the […]Read More ›

Lafonso Rollins’ Artwork This is a two-part series about Lafonso Rollins, who has been working with Hennepin Health since early 2015. Part 1: Childhood and Prison In 1994, 19-year-old Lafonso Rollins was sentenced to 75 years in prison for a […]Read More ›

Ellen Kennedy, the Executive Director of World Without Genocide, has long been committed to human rights, but a trip to Rwanda changed everything. The year was 2005, and over a decade had elapsed since the 1994 genocide — when a […]Read More ›

Sarah Kanan, a twenty-four year-old Iraqi American, feels pulled between two cultures. In America, where she’s lived most of her life, Sarah feels too Iraqi. But the two times she visited Iraq — the country her family fled during the […]Read More ›

In 2010, Joseph Desenclos quit his job in the private sector to become a street outreach worker at St. Stephen’s Human Services. Two years later, he was promoted to street outreach program manager. The career change was a long time […]Read More ›