Creighton University’s Institute for Latin American Concern facilitates service-learning immersions in the Dominican Republic that forge deep bonds between participants and inhabitants of that poor island nation. Cuban exile Jesuit priests Ernesto Travieso (then-medical school chaplain) and Narciso Sanchez (then-campus ministry director) started ILAC in the 1970s to increase U.S. awareness of the region. Today, […]
In Omaha, NUIHC offers mental illness counseling and drug-alcohol addiction treatment. The brick building houses 10-in-patient beds. The campus includes five transitional living units across the street owned by the Winnebago tribe and leased back to NUIHC. “When people graduate from this (treatment) program or any program in the country, they’re eligible to go to […]
Donna Polk and Nicole Tamayo decry developer-led gentrification driving their Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition out of downtown Omaha. Headquartered at 2240 Landon Court on 24th Street, between Farnam and Leavenworth, the nonprofit feels the squeeze enough from encroaching development that it plans moving to South Omaha to be closer to its Native base and […]
No one expected nationally ranked amateur fighter Juan Vazquez, 17, to be the poster boy for how boxing can transform your life. Four years ago, the now Ralston High senior was an obese couch potato who preferred video games over physical activity. Even after his mother practically dragged him to Jackson’s Boxing Club in south […]
Krist said if the state can’t fix the mess, then a federal ACLU suit could compel the U.S. Department of Justice to step in and determine what inmates get released. A new corrections facility could be mandated. “The last thing the people of Neb. want is another $400 million penal institution locking people up.” The […]
With millions of young Latinos now voting or soon reaching voting age, national nonprofit Voto Latino (VL) works to help Generation Zs and millennials assert their voice and stake their hold in America. VL president and CEO Maria Teresa Kumar was in Omaha Nov. 2 for a roundtable discussion with community leaders and to deliver the […]
Rony Ortega has gone far in his 15-year career as an educator. He worked in suburban school districts in Elkhorn and Papillion before recruited to the Omaha Public Schools by former OPS staffer and veteran South Omaha community activist, Jim Ramirez. Ortega. who’s married with three daughters, all of whom attend OPS, has moved from classroom teacher and high […]
When Amanda Ryan and her fellow Omaha Board of Education members couldn’t agree on hiring a new OPS superintendent last spring, it left that search in limbo and the community asking questions. Now, this emerging young leader is gearing up with her colleagues for a new search sure to be closely followed by stakeholders and […]
hances are, you don’t know Omaha has a public high school of performing arts, It may further surprise you that South High School is that Fame-style institution. South has been the Omaha Public Schools’ Visual & Performing Arts Magnet for two decades. But the architect for the arts emphasis there, retired South drama teacher Jim […]
Cristián Doña-Reveco knows the challenge of succeeding Lourdes Gouveia as director of OLLAS at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He’s long been an admirer of the Office of Latino and Latin American Studies she founded and is director emerita of today. “Lourdes Gouveia is a hard act to follow,” he said. “OLLAS is what […]
