BY JULIE PALMER Eleanor Roosevelt. Eudora Welty. Julia Child. Barbara Bush. When you hear this list of women strung together, you picture activists, trailblazers, women who believed in civic engagement and women who took on the issues of their times....
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INSPIRE: Ivette Cruz
By Carol Radin For Ivette Cruz, the 1,500 miles from her native Cuba to Syracuse can be measured in spirit and determination. Three years after her emigration, her new life is finally coming together, with graduate study at Syracuse University,...
INSPIRE: Kayla McKeon
Kayla McKeon might not look like a high-powered Washington insider, but she’s getting things done on the Hill. Kayla, a Cicero native, is the first registered lobbyist with Down syndrome. As the manager of grassroots advocacy at the National Down...
Syracuse Eats: Sugar & Co.
By Gabrielle Reagan Just around the corner from the Landmark theatre, nestled between a celebrated tattoo shop and store fronts along West Fayette Street, sits an intimate dessert and wine bar now celebrating its second birthday. Don’t panic, there is...
COVER STORY: Building a Foundation: Syracuse Habitat for Humanity Women Build
Even as a child, Rina Di Francesco understood the importance of having a home of one’s own. “My parents immigrated over from Italy with no money in their pockets, a couple of dollars,” Rina recalled. “But they worked hard, they...

