Zinta Aistars

Founded in 2012, Read and Write Kalamazoo, or RAWK, is devoted to nurturing intellectual and creative confidence in youth in Kalamazoo County.

It does that through creative writing workshops, summer camps, in-school programs, after-school tutoring, and community partnerships. Recently, RAWK brought on a new executive director: Kandace Lavender.

A Kalamazoo College historian says the Paralympics and disability sports can create positive - and negative - attitudes.

“Name one important thing that has not already happened,” Gail Martin writes in one of her poems.

He’s a craftsman, a designer, and an artist. Ted Lott has even been known to dumpster dive for his materials on occasion.

A painful loss in her personal life made Remi Harrington realize that she wanted to bring something meaningful to life in her community on Kalamazoo’s Eastside.