By Karen M. Sughrue | Aug 24, 2016
In 2006, we created and launched the Speaking Book – a world-first in health education for low literacy communities. The Speaking Book addresses the worldwide issue of low literacy, which threatens over a billion adults. Low literacy is a potentially...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Aug 24, 2016
It’s amazing to consider the fact that today, in western Michigan in the United States of America, there are people who speak more than 120 languages. And it’s even more amazing for me to be part of helping many of those immigrant families to integrate...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Aug 16, 2016
Many veterans seek out the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Hospital in hopes of feeling better. Thanks to Anthony Bravo Esparza — known to his friends as “Dreamer” — those veterans often end up looking better, too. Since the 1970s, Dreamer, a veteran himself, has...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Aug 15, 2016
It was the 1970s and I had been plunked down in a place called Norman, Oklahoma. It was a challenge for a 21-year old immigrant from Taiwan with little English, but I was excited. I had a scholarship to study biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma graduate school....
