Ravi Mantha ’94 brings new meaning to grassroots change with his organic farm-to-table café in India

The South Texas Detention Complex is a little over an hour from the Migrant Center for Human Rights office in San Antonio, where Sara Ramey ’05 is executive director.

Everybody in Tacoma wants a piece of Bernadette Ray ’99, MAT’01. She can’t go to the grocery store without folks stopping to talk, so she tends to do her shopping at night. As the new principal of Wilson High School, Bernadette loves everyone in her community—current students, former students, parents, teachers—and being at the center of it all.

When Meg Garvin ’91 saw a job listing seeking a victims’ rights lawyer for the National Crime Victim Law Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, she’d never heard of victims’ rights.

As a home visitor for behavioral health nonprofit LifeWorks NW, Ben Reuler ’99 has a mission to secure safe and affordable housing, work, and food for families who are fleeing domestic violence or struggling with addiction and poverty.

To explore the world through the lens of one’s most intense passion is an exceptional gift. On their own, with only a rough sketch of a road map, Watson Fellows often experience a raw moment of truth that shapes the rest of their lives.

How a few courageous students led a Tacoma Pride movement on campus that spread across the city