Articles by Joseph W Brandt

Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez (above, in red) was the first Latina elected to a district seat in City Council and has continued to advocate for Philadelphia’s diverse communities since. Working directly with Mayor Jim Kenney, she proposed a

During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Lissa Morinsky (above) packed up and moved to Prague, a city in the Czech Republic where she lived for five years. “It was incredible,” Morinsky said.

ABOVE: Gretchen Shanfeld (left), director of Health and Wellness at the Nationalities Service Center, and Cathy Jeong stand in front of a tapestry created by 30 immigrants from Bhutan, a country in the Himalayan Mountains. The

An influx of Latino and Asian immigrants have added to the city’s sizable black population and new ethnic neighborhoods have emerged in Philadelphia during the past several years. According to a 2008 report from the Brookings Institution, the

Bethany Welch (shown above) is the founding director the St. Thomas Aquinas Center, an organization affiliated with the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at 17th and Morris streets in South Philadelphia. The organization was created