Charmaine Seitz

When Sam Hoffmeister, editor for Irrigation & Lighting, assigned ASJA member and journalist Carol Brzozowski an article on diversity and workplace culture, he said he wanted a story that was solutions oriented. Rather than focusing on debate or ideology, Hoffmeister wanted the piece to provide actionable ideas and examples that business owners and managers could realistically apply to improve diversity within their own operations, Brzozowski recalls.

Jenin, The West Bank The story of the Jenin refugee camp is now one of picking up the pieces. The black faux-leather childs slipper left on a mound of rubble. Wide slabs of concrete cascading in mid-collapse from houses shaved in half. Living rooms opened like dollhouses, a fathers portrait still hanging on the wall. When the Israeli army entered Jenin refugee camp on April 3, it entered what it calls the capital of the suicide bombers.