Amazing Women Rhode Island

MARY BURKE is the longest-tenured coach in the history of women’s and men’s basketball in Rhode Island. She has coached the women’s basketball team at  Bryant University for over 30 years and has ove…

Since 1969 Meals on Wheels has been delivering meals to the homes of seniors, veterans, friends, and neighbors- over 1200 a day!  Executive director MEGHAN GRADY explains how volunteers bring more th…

MARCELA BETANCUR, director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University, discusses equity, housing, education, and the economic contributions of the Hispanic community in the state.

How’s your financial health? Are you saving for your kid’s education and your retirement? KAREN EMMA is founder and president of Universal Wealth Management. She discusses the myths about Medicare an…

Black history and story-telling is in VALERIE TUTSON’s DNA. She’s an award-winning story-teller with songs and stories from her travels in South Africa and West Africa. She’s a Brown University gradu…

Rhode Island’s Commerce Secretary is LIZ TANNER, a URI graduate with a law degree from Western New England University. She served as the Director of the Dept. of Business Regulations (DBR), regulatin…

You may not think twice about your next family meal, but food insecurity impacts  11% of Rhode Island households.  LISA ROTH BLACKMAN, chief philanthropy officer at the Rhode Island Food Bank, discus…

The Narragansett Indians have been in Rhode Island for over 30,000 years, according to archeological evidence and oral history. LOREN SPEARS, a Narragansett tribal member and executive director of th…

On any given night over 1200 people are homeless in Rhode Island. 30% of renters cannot afford to pay their rent. Despite legislative initiatives, affordable housing and homelessness are major policy…

You know her as the morning co-anchor on WJAR TV, but ALISON BOLOGNA, is also a businesswoman and entrepreneur who started SHRI Studio in Pawtucket.  She discusses "showing up for others" and how her…

Coastal management of the 420 miles of coastline really matters in the Ocean State.  PAULA BONTEMPI, Dean of URI School of Oceanography, discusses the importance of the Blue Economy in our state, coa…