Spotlight News

Ivette Kerr  was born and raised in Panama City, Republic of Panama, in Central America. For the past 20 years, she has lived in Raleigh with her adult daughters and  grand-dog, Chappie.  Ivette is currently the Director of Latina Services at InStepp, Inc.  Read more. …Read More >

A new approach of evaluating vascular function earlier in women, starting in middle age before arterial damage becomes severe, has been proposed by Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with international investigators. Read the article here by MayoClinic.org. …Read More >

Effective January 24th, consular officials now have the authority to deny a visitor visa if they have reason to believe the applicant intends to travel to the U.S. for the “primary purpose” of giving birth.  Read the article here by Michael Herrera in Ms. Magazine …Read More >

Women are the fastest growing prison population in the United States. Other than constituting yet another indication of how deeply flawed the American criminal justice system is, this fact has brought to light the incompetence of federal and private prisons in providing female inmates (particularly pregnant ones) proper medical care and protection from the rampant physical …Read More >

Jessica Corey  is a professor in the Thomas Writing Program at Duke University and is also the Program Coordinator for Graduate Student Instruction at Duke. After moving to Durham, she began looking for volunteer roles in which she could make a contribution and settled on the Communications and Social Media Volunteer opportunity at InStepp.  Since the Spring of 2018. …Read More >

State prison officials in California say they have been trying to improve conditions for female inmates in recent years, including enforcing a zero tolerance policy for sexual misconduct. To comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, prison officials investigate and track all allegations of sexual assault and harassment by staff, including correctional officers.  …Read More >