I would tear up, lower myself to the ground, and hug myself — desperately grasping to root myself back in reality.

In more extreme cases, education has kept many South Asian women from being married off.

In a way, the COVID-19 pandemic is making homelessness more visible—forcing people out of shelters and causing them to opt to sleep outside.

The institutional rigidity of America, and frankly, much of the world, is the concrete. New ideas and paradigms are the greenery.

I had just opened an envelope containing the 2016 renewal notice for our flood insurance. The premium was over $4,000.

I was faced with a difficult decision; continue taking chemistry courses and compromise my athletic season or switch my major.

One small caveat exists: I am a microbiologist who deals with infectious material for a living.

Those were simpler times though, and now people trust her to the point that they want more from her than just science.

In the weeks before, the village I was promised that came with bearing and raising a child was destroyed.