Maya’s Recent Stories
Arts Jul 26
These tight-knit retirees are helping breast cancer survivors feel like ‘Boobless Wonders’Losing breasts to cancer can be a shattering experience. As Maya Trabulsi of KPBS in San Diego reports, a tight-knit group of women at a retirement home in Escondido, California, is lessening the pain associated with mastectomies — one loving…
Arts Nov 26
An artist hopes the stories of our treasured objects can help us understand each otherWhat objects give meaning to our lives? Kerianne Quick, artist in residence at San Diego’s New Americans Museum, spent a year researching people’s treasured possessions -- and the stories behind them -- for an innovative project in which she preserves…
Nation Jun 10
How these grieving mothers seek to stop the cycle of violenceA group of mothers whose children were murdered are taking their tragic stories to inmates imprisoned for committing violent crimes. The perspective shared by Mothers with a Message encourages prisoners, some of whom will never be released, to understand the…
Arts Jun 04
Where inmates and mothers of murder victims are coming togetherMothers with a Message is an organization of bereaved parents who have lost children to homicide. Members visit prisons to tell their stories of grief to inmates, with the goal of breaking down the walls between victim and offender. Maya…