Voice: Christine Speer Lejeune

Save the Moms!
How to care for the over-burdened, burned-out moms of Covid. And why now, at the pandemic’s two-year mark, we actually have to.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Your Miserable ER Experience Isn’t Just Because of Covid
Will the pandemic be a wake-up call about the weaknesses in emergency care? Or will it be a death blow? The answer is in what we do next.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Ideas We Should Steal: Other-Caring Our Way Out of Covid Misery
In the Age of Self-Care, a Stanford psychologist suggests a better antidote to what ails us right now: focusing on other people
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Letter from Fairmount
A neighbor of those lost in the tragic fire this week chronicles the horror, the sorrow and, fittingly, the community togetherness that has emerged
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Help the Homeless in Philadelphia
With winter here, helping those without the warmth of home is more important than ever. Here, more than 15 ways to make a difference in the lives of homeless Philadelphians
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Generation Change Philly: The Cleaner-Upper
How Terrill Haigler (a.k.a. Ya Fav Trashman), a former Philly sanitation worker with a gift for organizing—and for social media—became one of Filthadelphia’s most beloved and recognizable change-makers
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Generation Change Philly: The Modern Humanitarian
Everyone in the know says Michael O'Bryan is Philly's thought leader 'it' person of the moment. But no one can actually say what he does. Maybe that's because changing humanity is hard to sum up pithily.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Generation Change Philly: The Innovation Coach
As the executive director of Penn’s Integrated Product Design program, Sarah Rottenberg inspires the next generation of inventors to solve problems at the intersection of humanity and design
By Christine Speer Lejeune