Note: Originally published in the May, 2016 Washington Park Profile. Iliff School of Theology, located at the corner of Iliff Avenue and University Boulevard, celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. To commemorate the anniversary, the school has planned a year of events and celebrations. On the horizon: a 50th anniversary celebration in April of the Martin Luther King speech “Beyond Vietnam,” a speech written by former Iliff Professor Vincent Harding. Sheikh Ibrahim Kazer

NOTE: Originally published on the April, 2016 Washington Park Profile website. NPR International Correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro is visiting the University of Denver campus and today served as the lunchtime keynote speaker at DU’s third annual Internationalization Summit, the focus of which is “Uncommon Intersections: Cultivating Multiple Perspectives at Home and Abroad.” Prior to today’s summit, Garcia-Navarro spoke yesterday to an assembled group of students, some from

Note: Originally published in the October 2017 issue of the Washington Park Profile. One might not know it, but tucked away on the fifth floor of the University of Denver’s relatively new Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science building is a senior-citizen-focused institute making big waves both locally and internationally. “The Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging opened its doors in its new location in August 2016 and was up and running by about October

Note: the following interview was originally published in the July 2016 issue of the Washington Park Profile. The 2016-17 school year at South High School will see a new face at the helm as Jennifer Hanson takes over for Dr. Kristin Waters, the well-loved South principal who led the Rebels for four-and-a-half years. Dr. Waters’ tenure marked many milestones for the school, and in this interview, Mrs. Hanson speaks to both those milestones and her plans for the school, as well

Note: Originally published in the February 2017 issue of Life on Capitol Hill. Homelessness, affordable housing and drug addiction: these are crises we’ve grown accustomed to thinking about in Central Denver. Kids going hungry, though? That’s not something commonly discussed. In the U.S., nearly 13 million children live in food-insecure households. According to nonprofit Hunger Free Colorado (hungerfreecolorado.org), 1 in 10 Coloradans and 1 in 6 Colorado children struggle wi

Note: Originally published in the November, 2017 issue of the Washington Park Profile. Jaclyn Yelich and others reported afterwards that community response to this story was tremendous and resulted in significant cash contributions and thousands of pounds of donated goods. As we go about our own lives, it's easy to believe every kid is well fed and living in a home well stocked with food and essentials. In South Denver, it could be very easy for a person to forget that, right