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Carolyn Wang Kong and Ray Baxter

A Conversation with Foundation President & CEO Ray Baxter

Chief Program Director Carolyn Wang Kong interviewed President & CEO Ray Baxter about health as a unifying vision for social change.

Carolyn Wang Kong

Reimagine Lab Fellows

Reflections on Reimagining: Eight things we learned from launching a design lab to prevent domestic violence

Reimagine Lab brought together a diverse group of leaders to apply human-centered design to domestic violence prevention.

Jennifer Lin

How many spirits live in a BART station? And other questions about othering and belonging

Earlier this year, I was late to work, flying down the stairs of the San Bruno BART station to the underground passenger area. The atmospheric rivers in the sky had filled the streets with water,...

Guest author

A Pathway to Prevention: How a life course perspective can help break the cycle of domestic violence

Recently, I was in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood when I heard a couple fighting across the street from me.

Jelissa Parham

Using Human-Centered Design to Address Domestic Violence: Q & A with Jaspal Sandhu

Jaspal Sandhu, PhD, Managing Partner of Gobee Group , a leading health and social impact design firm, and Professor of Practice in Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health at UC Berkeley, School of...

Jaspal S. Sandhu, PhDGuest author

Collaborating to End Domestic Violence in Northern California

This article orignally appeared in Blue Shield of California's Newscenter, here . For those seeking to distance themselves from the bustle of California’s major urban areas, the far north California...

Emily Otani, Blue Shield of California Newscenter

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99 grants made