Along with encouraging the students to dream and plan, STL | LIFT helps the students prepare for the future they aspire to live. This is accomplished through internships and job shadowing opportunities like the one Danise, featured two weeks, got to participate in. Ano...

To get inner-city teenagers with poverty mindsets to think about the future is a challenge to begin with. The STL | LIFT program understands this reality and mentality and fights against it by encouraging the students to dream and plan.

They make career aspiration and i...

So far, the pictures included in the series have been accompanied by stories and experiences. This entry is different in that I am going to let the pictures speak for themselves and provide guiding words. I challenge you to think about what you see and the story you cr...

St. Louis International Film Festival (November 1 – 11) – This film festival showcases the very best in cutting-edge features and shorts from around the globe. The majority of the more than 400+ films screened – many of them critically lauded award-winners – will recei...