is a Ukrainian immigrant who owes her life and this piece to her parents’ survival of disasters. A public high school history teacher, she lives in New Haven with her partner and their dog. Nataliya ...

(they/she) is a Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Kang’s work centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically ...

Wangari Maathai has always had an affinity for trees. As a child, she learned from her grandmother that a large fig tree near her family home in central Kenya was sacred and not to be disturbed. She ...

Until about 1980, America’s public schoolteachers were iconic everyday heroes painted with a kind of Norman Rockwell patina—generally respected because they helped most kids learn to read, write and ...

After nearly 30 years of publishing powerful stories that uplift voices too often ignored and spotlighting solutions too rarely seen, YES! Media is saying a tearful, but heartfelt goodbye. While this ...

Kyoung Mi Choi explores the additional layers that are involved in coming out as an Asian LGBTQ identifying person. Illustration by Tevy Khou. There was a time when coming out was the worst thing I ...

Longtime activist and academic Loretta J. Ross is on a mission to “build a culture that invites people in, instead of pushing them out.” As she explains in a TED talk she gave earlier this year, she ...

is the author of four novels focused on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent book, The Burning Heart of the World, is about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.

“Thinking of the Great Turning reminds me I don’t have to save the world by myself; then there’s more energy for my little piece of it — getting the military out of my son’s school.” — ...

All electronic transactions siphon money out of your community to some extent, so try the human approach and bank in person. Pay in cash or, second best, write a check. If you have to use plastic, ...

This article appears in Cities Are Now, the Winter 2015 issue of YES! Magazine. At 41, Dee Williams was a “nor­mal, middle-class, middle-of-the-road woman with a mortgage and a job and friends.” She ...

Keeping a healthy immune system is always important, especially during colder months when we’re often indoors, in closer contact with germs. The link between strong immunity and nutritional intake is ...