Social Justice

  • Ensuring That Health Care Reaches "The Last Mile"

    Craig Nakagawa (’89) is co-founder of VillageReach, an NGO aimed at improving health care distribution systems in the most distant reaches of developing countries, beginning with Mozambique.

    December 2009 Perspectives
  • Studying Fair Labor, with a Husky Twist

    Students in the Jackson School's Responsible Apparel Purchasing task force explored labor issues related to the production of apparel that bears a University of Washington logo. Related stories: The President as Evaluator

    July 2008 Perspectives
  • Finding Hope in Nima

    UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. 

    October 2006 Perspectives
  • Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison

    Anthropology professor Lorna Rhodes explores the challenges faced by prisoners and prison staff in a maximum security prison.

    March 2003 Perspectives