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INSIDE • Study: Blacks are poorer today than 5 years ago - 2 • Will you join Massey to reduce cancer disparities? - 4 • Insurance should end surprise medical billing- 6 • Alcohol is now growing as a prime-time killer- 14

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As a child, she experienced homelessness Now she’s working to end it Forbes meant so much to me.”

The recognition was particularly poignant for McClure who, in her youth, experienced a period of homelessness. “It showed me that folks who came from my background can be on the list and give back to others,” she said. “I read it to my mom and she started crying. It was a great moment. My mother was the one who instilled values, education and service into all of us.”

Adele McClure was named executive director of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus last October.

PHOTO: Kevin Morley Adele McClure’s strong desire to help others has never faltered. If anything, it continues to strengthen.

“Every step I have taken in my life is in that direction,” she recently said. “My personal approach to my career involves staying true to myself and what I believe is right. I am devoted to dedicating my time to helping the most vulnerable.”

In October, McClure was named executive

director of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus.

Earlier in the year, she landed a spot in the law and policy category of the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list and this year she was elected to the Forbes Under 30 Global Board.

“It was a shock when you get notification they are considering you,” McClure said of the Forbes listing. “To see your picture on the list is indescribable. Being on a list as prestigious as

Finding her way McClure grew up impoverished in Alexandria, Virginia, and that served as her motivation to serve and support others. She always wanted to make sure she was “lifting people when they need help,” she said.

She’s been interested in the lawmaking side of politics ever since she was young and has always enjoyed watching lawmakers “bring about change and the different policies and laws that impact people’s lives for the better.”

“My personal approach to my career involves staying true to myself and what I believe is right.

I am devoted to dedicating my time to helping the most vulnerable.”

Early on, McClure had dreams of being an attorney. She remembers looking through the yellow pages of the phone book when she was young and finding a female attorney she could write to for advice. “She wrotpapere me back with a nice letter,” McClure said.

After graduating from West Potomac High School in Fairfax County, McClure interned for the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee while applying to colleges. She targeted two universities — George Mason and VCU. She chose VCU. “When I got onto campus and

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Study: U.S. blacks poorer today than 5 years ago STACY M. BROWN Black Americans were more likely to be unemployed than Americans overall in 2018 than they were in 2013, according to a new study that details the economic and financial progress blacks have made over five years.

Researchers at Lending Tree, the popular website that connects borrowers with lenders, found that while unemployment decreased for African Americans by 36 percent – from 16.6 percent in 2013 to 10.6 percent in 2018 — it was still five percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for Americans as a whole.

The unemployment rate for Americans overall in 2013 was 9.7 percent, which fell to 5.9 percent in 2018.

“I don’t want to get political here, but I would hope that this report would color how people view the approaches that the parties and candidates take toward legislative and social issues, and how those things are framed,” said Lending Tree Lead Researcher Kali McFadden.

“It certainly demonstrates that, even though people talk about how much better economically things are, African Americans are more in the hole than they were five years ago.”

Among other key findings, the median household income for black Americans grew by 13.4 percent, roughly the same rate of 13.7 percent for Americans as a whole.

But, it remains 33 percent below the national average.

The study revealed that the median household income for blacks in 2018 was $40,155 — more than $20,000 less than the $60,293 median household income for Americans as a whole.

The median individual earnings for black workers — which were already 16 percent lower than the median personal earnings for American workers as a whole — grew by 7.1 percent, compared with 9.5 percent for workers as a whole.

That means that the earnings gap between African Americans and Americans as a whole increased by 11.2 percent between 2013 and 2018.

And, although household income increased, the income gap between black Americans and Americans as a whole remained steady at 33 percent. In comparison, the wage gap between blacks and Americans as a whole increased 11 percent from 2013 to 2018.

While homeownership rates fell for Americans overall between 2013 and 2018, blacks saw a more significant

drop of 4.7 percent, compared with 1.7 percent for Americans as a whole.

Study authors concluded that there are four metro areas in which black homeowners have closed the gap within 20 percent – all of them are in the South, specifically in the Carolinas.

Minnesota, Minn., has the most substantial gap, at 64 percent.

What McFadden said she found most striking is the advances made in education by black Americans, which didn’t translate into more economic prosperity in the black community.

“In almost every metric we examined, African Americans realized slower growth than the country as a whole, but they did outpace their peers when it comes to higher education,” McFadden noted.

The study revealed that black Americans are closing the higher education gap as the percentage of black people with a bachelor’s degree rose from 18.6 percent in 2013 to 21.1 percent in 2018 – an increase of 13.5 percent.

The increase for Americans as a whole was just 9.4 percent – from 28.8 percent in 2013 to 31.5 percent in 2018, Lending Tree research found.

Black residents of Riverside, Calif., Pine Bluff, Ark. and San Antonio have closed the gap with the whole of their communities when it comes to earning higher education degrees.

Residents of Charlottesville, Va. have seen that gap widen the most: 66 percent.

“The education findings to me really were the most striking, the most disheartening and frightening,” McFadden lamented.

“You know, we’d really hope that education would create a more even playing field and the fact that African Americans are exceeding the growth rate in higher education degrees shows a lot of things. It shows achievement, and it shows that families are directing their children, and it shows a lot of groundswell for entering the professional working world.”

She continued: “The fact that other economic indicators aren’t keeping pace with that is really startling. And, I don’t have a good reason for why that is. We know about workplace bias, and we know about resume bias.”

McFadden opined that student loans are more of a hindrance to African Americans than others. “If you’re less likely to come from a family that has the kind of wealth that can help support your schooling,

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(from page 2) it’s obviously going to be a problem in terms of accumulating debt,” she said.

For those attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), McFadden believes the lack of funding at those schools contributes to high student debt.

“HBCUs just don’t have the endowments that the most prestigious schools have. We have reports that show where parents are borrowing to send their kids to school, and those debts are harder to pay,” McFadden added.

The comprehensive study did reveal places where African

Americans are faring well.

Researchers found that the Cape Coral-Ft. Myers, Fla., metro area is leading the country in economic advancement for African Americans.

The population has grown by 17 percent, median household income is up by 26 percent, and individual earnings are up by 22 percent.

Homeownership is up by 50 percent in Cape Coral-Ft. Myers, and unemployment is down by 66 percent.

Also, 25 percent more black residents in the Cape Coral-Ft. Myers area is attaining higher education degrees than they were in 2013.

Grand Rapids, Mich., and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.,

came in second and third place, respectively. The five locations with the least overall gains for African Americans are all in the South – Houma-Thibodaux, La., ShreveportBossier City, La., Hammond, La.,

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Goldsboro, N.C., and Hilton Head Island-Beaufort, S.C. When asked what’s the biggest takeaway from the study, McFadden called most of the details “depressing for African Americans.”

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Residents asked to partner in research to reduce cancer disparities VCU Massey Cancer Center is asking local citizens to partner in cancer research designed to identify and address health needs in their own communities.

The project called Together for Health – Virginia is described as a comprehensive health assessment program designed to better understand how social and behavioral patterns as well as financial and environmental factors impact cancer rates. Information from this research will help to improve health care practices and services within communities.

“This is an opportunity for residents to partner with their local National Cancer Institutedesignated cancer center on a research program aimed at improving health in the communities

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“The effort really gets to the heart of Massey’s mission by conducting research that makes an impact at the local level.”

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Children’s hospital joins law firm & Dominion to provide free legal assistance for patients Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University has launched a partnership with McGuireWoods and Dominion Energy to make an additional 50 attorneys available to families with legal needs that impact the health of their children. This relationship significantly expands the existing Medical-Legal Partnership – Richmond program, which began in January 2018 and offers free legal advice and representation for eligible patients and families in Richmond and surrounding counties.

“MLP-Richmond has received approximately 200 referrals of families at the Children’s Pavilion and VCU Massey Cancer Center each of the past two years, but there are many more who can benefit from this professional assistance,” said Allison Held, associate general counsel and director of MLPRichmond at VCU Health. “The generosity and willingness of these attorneys from outside the health care industry to donate their time and work alongside us to help patients in difficult situations is remarkable.”

With the addition of these attorneys, MLP-Richmond has expanded to provide access to legal counsel at no cost to families of pediatric patients at Virginia Treatment Center for Children and CHoR’s Brook Road Campus, along with adult patients at VCU Health’s Complex Care Clinic.

Pro bono services covered by the McGuireWoods and Dominion Energy attorneys include housing law (eviction defense, repairs, substandard housing conditions, etc.); immigration relief (as it relates

to access to care); family law (child custody, guardianship, domestic violence); simple wills, powers of attorney and advance medical directives; and education advocacy (IEP eligibility and enforcement, 504 plans, bullying, etc.). MLPRichmond services offered by the onsite attorneys through the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society and CancerLINC also include health and public benefits (Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, etc.), and employment and consumer law (bankruptcy, debt collection defenses, garnishment protection, etc.).

Takia Gant, whose 1-year-old son Adrian has cerebral palsy, knows first-hand the importance of legal assistance as a component of comprehensive health care. When her apartment had an unpleasant smell and was overrun with rodents, her already-fragile son experienced recurrent illness. She tried many times to get the general manager to take action without success.

Tiffany Kimbrough, M.D., Adrian’s pediatrician at CHoR, referred Gant to MLP-Richmond.

“Within a month, the attorney got us out of the apartment and into a new one. She even got my rent reduced at the new apartment to match what I was paying before,” Gant said. “Having somebody to help me made my life so much easier. She was basically my voice. She still calls and checks up on me to make sure everything is going great.”

Adrian has not been sick in four months and is no longer on supplemental oxygen as he prepares to celebrate his second birthday.

“Imagine a child living in public

housing has asthma and there is a mold problem. This could be lifethreatening. We now have partners on board to help take care of the whole child and family – to get them appropriate housing and keep them healthy,” Kimbrough said. “MLPRichmond helps with everything from wheelchair ramps and custody support to education advocacy. They are helping us make sure every child has the opportunity for a healthy future.”

Jon Harmon, McGuireWoods’ chairman, said, “McGuireWoods is pleased to partner with two of our community’s strongest groups – Dominion and VCU – in meeting legal needs through a medical legal partnership. We applaud VCU’s initiative to treat the whole person by addressing social issues rooted in legal problems for its patients.

To the extent our legal assistance improves the health and well-being of patients and families, we are all the better for it.”

This initiative uses the Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines for income eligibility as they are more generous than poverty

guidelines and enable the program to serve more patients with legal needs who cannot afford a lawyer.

“Dominion Energy is a public service corporation and we believe that our duty to serve extends beyond just providing affordable energy but also to finding ways to improve our communities,” said Carlos M. Brown, senior vice president and general counsel for Dominion Energy. “We are excited about the potential that our partnership with McGuireWoods and VCU Health will have on improving the lives of some of our most vulnerable customers. Our commitment to the medical-legal partnership is part of our belief that our actions speak louder than our words.”

“This partnership is a gamechanger for us,” Held said. “It will enable us to serve more patients with legal needs that affect their health and well-being, and who have nowhere else to turn. That’s what MLP-Richmond is all about – improving community health through legal advocacy.”

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Big insurance must help end surprise medical billing DR. BEN F. CHAVIS, JR. It is a serious financial problem that far too many African-Americans - from impoverished individuals to working-class families - face these days in the bewilderingly complicated health-care market: Getting hit with an unexpected bill after a hospital stay or visit to the emergency room.

Known as “surprise medical billing,” these unexpected costs arise when a patient goes to a hospital for emergency or non-emergency care, only to find out afterwards that one of the medical providers who administered care was not covered in the patient's insurance network.

This outrageous situation benefits one group and one group alone: powerful insurance executives, who have managed to get off the financial hook for such bills, even as insurers shrink insurance coverage networks to wring more and more profits out of the system.

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that can wipe out savings accounts or otherwise strain tight household budgets.

So, what can be done to stop and end surprise medical billing?

The good news is that both Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree that legislation is needed to protect patients against unexpected medical charges. But as with many complicated issues confronting Congress, lawmakers have been divided on the details of such legislation.

Part of the paralysis in Congress stems from confusion and disinformation, as insurance executives and their allies try to frame the debate to their advantage.

When Congress tried to address the issue last year, for example, the insurance lobbying machine swung into action, attempting to place the blame for surprise bills on out-ofnetwork medical providers who end up having to charge patients when insurers refuse to cover a medical bill.

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from paying what they ought to pay. The legislation, championed by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), specifically called for setting benchmarked rates for out-ofnetwork medical providers.

But far from solving the problem, this approach would make matters worse. It not only frees insurers from their responsibilities. It fails to compensate providers for the cost of the care that they actually provide.

And that, in turn, means either patients will get stuck with the bill or medical providers will have to absorb big losses that ultimately jeopardize their ability to stay in business.

Fortunately, the proposed bill stalled after the medical community warned that the benchmarked rate favored by the insurance industry would allow insurers to exert a new troubling level of control over health-care prices and the larger health-care delivery system.

Now, as Congress begins to take up the issue once again, health insurance companies that evaded significant scrutiny last year seem to be drawing close scrutiny now, both inside and outside of Washington.

Speaking to a group of faith

leaders and policymakers in South Carolina, an important stop for the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Reverend Al Sharpton criticized the surprise medical billing legislation backed by insurers and stressed the urgent need to deal with the continued lack of access to adequate health insurance coverage for minority communities.

“Washington is getting it wrong,” he wrote in an opinion piece published after his South Carolina trip, adding that the bill introduced by "Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to ‘solve’ the surprise billing problem would literally insulate insurance companies from covering these costs, at a time when profits for insurance companies have reached record highs.”

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Ma.) predicted that health insurers would do little more than look out for their own interest if they were given the authority to set rates for out-of-network providers.

“My concern with giving too much weight to such a benchmark rate is that we already know insurers

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

WE DID IT.

March 6, 2020 was a historic day for representative democracy in Virginia. The General Assembly passed SJ18 (Barker) for the second year in a row with support from both parties. Gerrymandering has always been a bipartisan problem that has required a bipartisan solution.

With this vote, the Commonwealth is continuing on the path to amend the state constitution to create our firstever redistricting commission. The legislature has taken a significant step towards truly reforming the way Virginia draws its electoral districts by: * Including citizens in the redistricting process for the first time; * Enshrining the protections of the federal Voting Rights Act in the Virginia Constitution; * Requiring full transparency of the commission’s meetings; and * Instituting preventative

measures to ban gerrymandering on the basis of race and partisanship.

Getting to this point has been a long process, and there have been spirited conversations about some provisions of the bipartisan amendment -even among those who have long supported reforming Virginia’s broken redistricting practices.

We feel that these discussions have made the amendment and accompanying enabling legislation even stronger, and OneVirginia2021 will work with redistricting and voting rights advocates of every political persuasion to ensure that the commission’s work is successful if the November referendum passes.

In the end, we all want the same thing: to improve the outdated and unfair practices of Virginia’s redistricting process.

And while voters will have the final say on November’s ballot, we are energized by the endorsements of over a dozen Virginia-based advocacy organizations, nationally-recognized redistricting experts, every major newspaper in Virginia and over 70 percent of registered voters in the Commonwealth.

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(from page 6) providers -- rather than sticking are looking for any way they can to pay the least amount possible,” he said. “They will work to push those rates down, regardless of what it means for community providers like physicians, hospitals, and our constituents who they employ."

There were similar concerns in the U.S. Senate, where Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) warned that insurers began gaming the system in California once benchmarking rates became the law of the land in that state in 2016.

“Insurance companies cancel contracts and then they have the negotiating power and they establish" their own rate, he said, adding that such benchmarking of rates would likely put hospitals "out of business.”

It’s worth noting that lawmakers are raising such concerns despite the considerable backing the insuranceindustry legislation has had from two powerful lawmakers: Senator Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and Frank Pallone, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose jurisdiction includes health care issues.

More than that, Senator Cassidy introduced legislation that would eliminate surprise medical billing by establishing an arbitration system between insurers and

the disputed medical charges to patients. And that legislation is gaining strong bipartisan support, as is a similar bill in the House that is being advanced Representatives Representative Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and Representative Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), both of whom are doctors.

Surprise medical billing is a problem we can no longer ignore, particularly at a time when roughly two-thirds of Americans say that they are concerned about their ability to pay for an unexpected medical expense for themselves or for a family member. And this practice it is especially hard on African Americans and other people of color in the U.S. who already face significant barriers to health care and who generally receive lower quality of care than the rest of the nation.

Congress has an opportunity to make things right by ending the practice of surprise medical billing.

Black Americans and all others in America shouldn't be saddled with exorbitant bills that they had no reason to expect - and that impose an unjust financial burden.

Chavis is president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) representing the Black Press of America. He can be reached at dr.bchavis@nnpa.org.

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Faith & Religion Faith leaders: Fear remains a barrier for minority participation in U.S. census ADELLE M. BANKS RNS — As the once-a-decade count of Americans nears, U.S. Census Bureau officials brought faith leaders together to talk about their role in getting congregants across the country to participate.

“You are your community’s most trusted voice,” Steven Dillingham, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, told about 100 leaders gathered last month for the bureau’s interfaith summit in an auditorium of the Washington National Cathedral.

“We appreciate your help in delivering our message to your congregations and assuring them that the 2020 census is easy, it is safe and it is important to their community and our nation.”

But, while speakers from a range of faiths cited numerous ways they are working to encourage participation in the count that officially starts April 1, issues of trust and safety were exactly what were on the minds of some of the attendees.

Pastor John Zayas of Chicago voiced concerns about threats by the Trump administration to sanctuary cities, including the presence last summer of armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in his city.

“Do we have a guarantee from the administration, from the department, that our information doesn’t go to those places?” he asked.

“Because there’s legitimate fear here.”

The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, responded, saying congregations, like his in Florida, need to become “safe spaces.” Some members of Calvario

Bishop Reginald Jackson City Church in Orlando, where he is the senior associate pastor, have been certified by the Census Bureau as onsite trainers who can assist people in responding to the census online.

“I think we have to acknowledge the fear,” said Salguero in response to Zayas’ question. “And then I think the question is: And then what? If there’s fear, what are the antidotes to that fear?”

Census Bureau officials pointed out that Title 13 of the U.S. Code notes the bureau cannot release identifiable information to law enforcement.

But the Rev. Nelson Rivers III, an officer of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, said “to be paranoid is a natural response to being black and brown in this country.” He noted the government is run by a different administration than it was in 2010, when the last census was taken.

“I’m from a community that realizes the policy depends on who’s enforcing it,” said Rivers, NAN’s vice president of religious affairs and

external relations. “Right now, we have a guy who’s demonstrated that the law doesn’t mean jack to him.”

In response to Rivers, Dillingham stood up along with other Census Bureau executives and spoke of the bureau’s track record.

“I can assure you that not only does the law require us to do our job professionally and protect confidential information, we have all the systems in place, the most sophisticated systems available, to protect the information,” he said.

Albert E. Fontenot Jr., associate director of decennial census programs, added that it is time to reverse the longtime undercount of people of color in the U.S. census.

“For decades the black and brown communities in America have been undercounted,” he said. “And if we allow fear to cause us to be undercounted one more time, we are putting power in the hands of people we do not want to put power in their hands.”

Leaders of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist faiths cited examples of how they are urging congregants to participate in the count that affects the distribution of some $675 billion in federal funds and determines congressional representation. A Muslim woman in Virginia is making sure every child is included, even if just 1 day old. A rabbi in New York said he is working to help technology be available in hard-to-count areas.

A Catholic nun in Ohio has urged college students to join the count.

Bishop Reginald Jackson, a Georgia leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church who is encouraging his denomination’s churches to make sure every congregant’s family is counted, said

he understood the concerns voiced

by Rivers and others.

“I think your question highlights why it’s important that all faith leaders in this crowd and across this country have a responsibility,” Jackson said. “Because the fact of the matter is it’s going to take folk who look like them and who live where they live to get them to trust us on this census.”

Beyond the census interfaith summit, other groups have been working to include houses of worship and faith leaders in encouraging religious constituencies to take part in the count that affects funding of public services such as schools, hospitals, roads and emergency response for at least the next 10 years.

Faith in Action, a national community organizing network, launched a campaign last year.

Other organizations, including Faith in Public Life and Fair Count, have offered toolkits with key dates, sermon tips and frequently asked questions (including one answering that the census will not include a citizenship question).

At a recent Congressional Black Caucus leadership summit, Fair Count Vice President Jeanine Abrams McLean said her organization has paid for internet installations in churches and other locations in parts of Georgia where there was no online access.

McLean, the daughter of two ministers, said the access will help people whether or not they worship in the newly wired churches.

“I know that people say everybody doesn’t go to church,” she said. “You might not go to that church. But you might know somebody that uses that church’s food pantry or that church’s clothes closet.”

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Celebrating future ‘Herstory Makers’ for WHM There’s a digital divide in the Richmond community. Black girls are not graduating with digital skills needed for work in the 21st century.

What’s worse, because of systemic and institutional racism, they also lack access to networks and mentors to help them succeed.

Girls For A Change notes that its research shows that black girls in Richmond are active and engaged in their education, yet out of all girls in Greater Richmond, they are most likely to be pushed out of the classroom. By age 14, black girls are already experiencing a race and gender wage gap, and 57 percent report that they don’t feel safe at school.

In 2017, the National Science Foundation reported only 5 percent of managerial jobs in STEM were held by black women and men combined. Currently in Virginia there are over 36,000 unfilled data analytic jobs with a starting pay of $88,000. The problem of diversity is clear.

“The problem is systemic,” said Angela Patton, CEO, Girls For A Change CEO. “Breaking the cycle of poverty takes more than teaching a girl to code. Even if she teaches herself digital skills to get the job she wants, she will have a hard time breaking through without a network and certifications to prove her talent - no matter how talented she is.”

Patton continued that with no network, no skills, no mentors to show her the way, she will have no opportunities on the horizon.

“She will face barrier after barrier to get ahead and will get nowhere.

Her only option in order to survive will be to get a job with no real trajectory. This vicious cycle is what many girls in our community face,” said Patton.

Wouldn’t it be great if the Richmond workforce and startup scene had a more diverse make-up?

Immerson Lab events

3/20 2-4pm: Talk Tech and Sip with Capital One’s VP of Technology Reboot your afternoon over coffee and conversation with Tech Whisperer Maureen Jules-Perez, VP of Technology at Capital One. Maureen will discuss the digital divide and how to get more women in tech.

3/23 12-2pm Pick Her Brain: Q&A with Kristen Cavallo, CEO of the Martin Agency Wouldn’t it be great to grab lunch or coffee with one of the first women CEOs in the Ad Industry? Now you can. Girls For A Change invites you to join them for an intimate luncheon with Nationally recognized CEO Kristen Cavallo. Kristen will answer your burning questions about life as a CEO, working in the ad industry, marketing & branding, and more.

3/31 7:30am-12pm Founding Female: Stories of Success in RVA Join Girls For A Change for an empowering morning with some of Richmond’s most successful entrepreneurs. The morning will start off with a Keynote by Charis Jones, CEO of Sassy Jones, the Richmond based business making headlines for its tremendous retail success. You will also hear remarks from the First Lady of Virginia and get a chance to hear from a panel of powerhouse Richmond women who will share their stories of success.

What if the next “Top Ten Cities” list Richmond landed on was “places for black women in technology and entrepreneurship?” What if there was a bigger pool of diverse applicants to hire from in fields like technology and science? It’s time for black girls and other girls of color to have equal opportunities to pursue

careers in STEM fields or start businesses within our city.

There can be, noted Patton.

“March is Women’s History Month and Girls For A Change is calling on the community to celebrate and support the launch of a new program that will fill the gaps we’re seeing.

The Immersion Lab is the first of its

kind learning and skills development center and event space,” she said.

Virginia’s first lady, Pamela Northam, said that while great strides have been made in recent years by engaging young women, sparking wonder and igniting curiosity in STEM education, more can still be done.

“It is imperative that we are thoughtful and strategic in our approach to reach every student, no matter who they are or where they live,” said Northam. “There is beauty and strength in diversity and Virginia cannot move forward if half of us are left behind.”

The Immersion Lab is a girl led event space and workforce development program designed to set girls of color up with the skills, experience, and professional networks needed to succeed. The program will close opportunity gaps by providing digital skills training and certifications within a space designed specifically for them – where they won’t be pushed out. Girls will have a place to learn alongside mentors and instructors who want to see them succeed while also earning volunteer hours and work experience running the event space accessible to the community.

Patton said the unique program allows the community to invest in young girls of color by booking the Girls For A Change event space with the option to offer girls the opportunity to put their skills to work running an event.

The lab will be located within WORK Studios at 1657 W. Broad St. in Richmond. During March, Girls For A Change is hosting a series of events called “Herstory Now” to raise funds for the equipment and furniture needed to make the space their own. GFAC has invited some of the most successful and innovative Richmond women to join them in the celebration of Women’s History Month.

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Data collected through Together for Health – Virginia research program will be used to guide Massey in targeting community outreach and education efforts addressing health behaviors such as tobacco cessation, obesity/weight management, HPV vaccination, cancer screening and early detection. It will also serve to identify causes of cancer disparities across the state, by examining the impacts of financial barriers, health literacy, access to health care services and medical mistrust. Results will be shared with state and local agencies to guide programs aimed at improving health.

“We need the help of community members and citizen collaborators to tell us about their behaviors and how they engage with health information so we can learn and discover better ways to promote health and well-being in their communities,” saidFuemmeler, who is also collaborating with Massey Cancer Prevention and Control research members David Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor in the VCU Department of Biostatistics, and Sunny Jung Kim, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., assistant professor in the VCU Department of Health Behavior and Policy.

“The programs that we implement will only be effective if we have a deep grasp of all the factors that impact cancer risk, so it’s important that participants in the program represent all of the diverse populations living in Virginia.”

Massey is one of the only safety-net cancer centers in Virginia, meaning that it treats all patients regardless of their health insurance coverage or ability to pay for treatment. As such, Massey plays an important role as a cancer care provider for high-risk and underserved populations, uninsured and Medicaid patients.

Together for Health – Virginia is funded by a one-year supplement to Massey’s National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant of more than $225,000.

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(from page 1) took my first step, I fell in love,” she said.

During her time at VCU, she participated in over 22 university organizations, committees and task forces. She served as student body president from 2010-11 and was the 2011 recipient of the VCU Division of Student Affairs Distinguished Service Award. Other awards include the VCU Alumni 10 Under 10, the University Leadership Award, the University Service Award and the Monroe Park Campus Student Government Association Christopher Mays Award. In 2010, she co-created VCU Qatar Day, an annual cultural awareness event. “[It] was such a phenomenal experience,” she said. “I think that things happened for a reason to lead me to VCU. I can’t imagine where I would be right now if it weren’t for VCU.” Making a difference McClure made the decision not to go to law school after graduating from the VCU School of Business with a bachelor’s in economics. “I realized I didn’t need a law degree to make a difference and do what I wanted to do,” she said.

Instead, she took a job with the nonprofit Association of the United States Army and in three months went from an administrative assistant to supervisor. “We were the voice for the soldier and their family,” she said of the Arlington, Virginia-based organization.

McClure held two other jobs before accepting the position of program policy director in the office of Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax in 2018. Her work included developing policy initiatives and designing and implementing three statewide roundtables on evictions.

She resigned her position in protest in 2019 after sexual assault allegations were raised against Fairfax.

When McClure was in the lieutenant governor’s office, she worked to raise statewide awareness of housing issues, such as evictions, and bring support and

March 11, 2020• 13 legislation to the problem. “My main goal in life is to move toward ending homelessness,” she said.

After resigning, she continued working to coordinate efforts on reducing and preventing evictions during an interim position with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.

“When she left the lieutenant governor’s office we reached out to

her,” said Pamela Kestner, deputy director of housing at the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. “She comes to the table wanting to learn and share.

She’s an incredible young woman.”

Kestner would have liked to have McClure stay with the department, but “we knew she was destined for bigger things.”

Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan

has worked with McClure closely over the years. “I’m proud of her many contributions to the commonwealth,” McClellan said.

“Her work has directly impacted and improved the lives of Virginians — especially our most vulnerable.

Adele’s commitment to public service is deeply appreciated and her background and experiences are drivers in all that she does.” -VCU NEWS

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Alcohol is growing as a prime-time killer USN - A. Garcia says he knew he’d gotten lazy in recent years.

He started working from home, began drinking a six-pack of IPAs after work “pretty much daily” and embraced “a very couch potato-esque life.”

“I definitely drank a lot more than the normal person, but in my mind, I was nowhere near hitting a danger zone because I wasn’t drinking to excess – I was more drinking just habitually, casually,” recalls Garcia, whom U.S. News is not fully identifying to protect his privacy. “I was never ... doing anything wild – it was so boring.”

Boring, that is, until Garcia tried to stop drinking in July. Two days later, he was experiencing slight hallucinations – a symptom of alcohol withdrawal – and ultimately headed to the emergency room for

help. It was there that the 37-yearold was diagnosed with cirrhosis, a late stage of liver scarring often tied to chronic alcohol use, and put on the U.S. liver transplant waiting list for an immediate operation.

“Luckily I stabilized fairly quickly ... so that option was kind of taken off the table, but still when I left, I was still considered extremely highrisk,” Garcia says.

Though his age and his habits may not fit the normal perception of a person suffering the potentially fatal effects of alcohol misuse, national data shows Garcia is not alone, with booze cutting short the lives of those even younger than him at an increasing rate. And while it’s not always clear whether the surge is tied to better measurements or to alcohol consumption itself, experts are concerned.

Between 1999 and 2017, for example, while adults ages 45 to 74 continued to have the highest alcohol-related death rates, those 25 to 34 saw the largest increases over time, according to a study published this year by researchers with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Nearly half of alcohol-related deaths in 2017 were the result of liver disease or overdoses, either from alcohol itself or combined with other drugs.

A separate study found that people between the ages of 25 and 34 saw the highest average annual increase – 10.5 percent – in cirrhosis-related deaths of any age group from 2009 to 2016, driven heavily by alcohol use, and the number of deaths from cirrhosis in this age group doubled.

The findings stand “in contrast to any other time in recorded history,

so going back through the 70s,” says Dr. Elliot Tapper, lead author of the study and an assistant professor and liver specialist with the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine.

“The immediate reaction that everyone had across the country was, ‘This is what we see,’” Tapper says. “If you round in an American hospital, then you will find not only is alcohol-related disease markedly overrepresented – the chances that you find someone with an alcohol use disorder are very high simply in the population that’s hospitalized – but then two ... the list of patients on which a liver specialist rounds is almost uniformly, at this point, alcohol-related disease and disproportionately young people.”

That dynamic is also playing out in the operating room. In a study

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3.11, 6 p.m.

3.16 and more

Henrico CASA will hold information sessions at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11 and at noon Thursday, March 19 for people who may be interested in volunteering to work in the court system on behalf of abused or neglected children.

The information sessions will be held in the CASA offices in suite A of the Hungary Spring Office Park, 3001 Hungary Spring Rd. To reserve a seat, contact Rebecca Kalman-Winston at 804-501-1670.

3.12, 6 p.m.

Virginia Credit Union will offer a free seminar with practical steps for identifying and prioritizing debt, reducing expenses, and accelerating the repayment of debt.

The “Strategies for Eliminating Debt” seminar will be at Virginia Credit Union in the Boulders Office Park, 7500 Boulder View Drive.

To register, call 804-323-6800 or visit www.vacu.org/seminars

3.14-15, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Locals and tourists alike are invited to enjoy unique history, fascinating stories and a journey into the past during the biannual Time Travelers weekend.

Explore new participating sites and old favorites this year as 24 historic homes, churches, museums and more open their doors to visitors across the Richmond Region.

Each site will offer free admission to those visitors presenting a Time Travelers Passport available via download on participating locations’ websites. Additionally, several participating sites have developed new programming in observance of Women’s History Month. Download the passport, explore local history and get to know the Richmond Region, free of charge.

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Henrico County Public Schools will propose starting the 2021-22 school year before Labor Day, and will hold a series of five community meetings on the idea. Families and members of the public are invited to ask questions, offer feedback and learn why the school division is moving toward this idea.

The sessions will include a short presentation from Henrico Schools leaders and staff members about the calendar process and some of the implications of an earlier start. That will be followed by opportunities to ask questions and comment. The five information sessions will be held at schools and libraries across Henrico County, and will include both morning and evening sessions, and include: • March 16- 10:30 a.m. - Tuckahoe Area Library, 1901 Starling Dr. 6:30 p.m. at Hermitage High School, 8301 Hungary Spring Rd. • March 19 - 6:30 p.m. at Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Ave. • March 24 6:30 p.m. at Pocahontas Middle School, 12000 Three Chopt Rd. • April 2 - 10:30 a.m. at Fairfield Area Library, 1401 N. Laburnum Ave. The school division will be posting detailed calendar information to henricoschools.us, along with a feedback portal, before the series of community meetings begins.

The School Board is tentatively scheduled to vote on the matter at its April 23 meeting, in order to give the Henrico community notice of the change more than a year in advance.

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(from page 14) published last year, Dr. Brian Lee – a transplant hepatology fellow at the University of California–San Francisco – and colleagues found an increase in the proportion of liver transplants associated with alcohol-related liver disease, or ALD, between 2002 and 2016. In an email to U.S. News, Lee also says “the average age of transplant recipients for ALD has significantly declined over time, which is the opposite of the trend among other liver diseases.”

“It’s jarring to see somebody in their 20s, many times their first time seeing a doctor, with end-stage liver disease caused by alcohol,” he says. “This is a process of liver damage that we typically assume should take decades to happen.”

Tapper, with Michigan Medicine, describes the younger patients in his practice as “people who may have only started drinking recently” rather than those who have chronically overused alcohol.

Drinking patterns, beverage choices and the “risk for getting injured from a given drink (have) all become worse,” he says.

“What is particularly tragic about deaths due to liver disease in young people is that these are people who do not have other major comorbidities. These are people who were going to go on and raise families and be productive members of the society, do important things across all strata of our society,” Tapper says. “That’s what makes dying in your 20s much more of an urgent public health problem.”

Dr. Jessica Mellinger, a specialist in hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine with Michigan Medicine, says alcohol-related liver disease accounts for at least half of the patients she sees, with a particularly notable increase among young women around the age of 30 who have cirrhosis or advanced liver disease.

Mellinger says she thinks such

conditions may be developing faster in people who started using alcohol very young and then progressed rapidly to heavy drinking. She says contributing factors – such as binge drinking, obesity, depression or anxiety – may compound on top of each other, increasing a person’s risk.

“We do seem to see alcohol use disorder coming in a package of a lot of other psychosocial issues that can make it more complex,” Mellinger says.

The rate of binge drinking in the U.S. – typically defined as four or more drinks for a woman or five or more drinks for a man within a couple hours or on one occasion – hovered around 17 percent between 2011 and 2017. Recent research also shows the annual number of drinks per adult who reported binge drinking has increased by 12 percent since 2011.

How the increase in harmful drinking patterns translates to health outcomes is still not well understood, Lee says. Yet Dr. Gabriel Schnickel, a liver, kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon with UC San Diego Health, notes that “not everyone processes alcohol the same.”

“You see a lot of people, these younger folks who ... think they’re drinking the same amount as their friends or same amount as people that they socialize with, but for them, it is doing irreversible damage to their liver,” Schnickel says. “We see a lot of young people come in who are in the throes of alcoholic hepatitis who had no idea that they could end up in that situation and, certainly, the terror in their eyes when they hear that they may need a new liver.”

Dr. Richard Saitz, chair of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, says factors beyond consumption, such as genetics and socioeconomics, may heighten a person’s risk.

“Some people can drink a lot and will never develop liver disease, just

While the prevalence of binge drinking in the U.S. is down, those who do it have raised more glasses overall. like people can smoke a lot and not develop lung cancer,” Saitz says.

Culture plays a role, too, he says, with alcohol used in toasts “for just about anything” and larger serving sizes at bars and restaurants. Some cocktails and beers also have higher amounts of alcohol per drink than many may realize.

“People may think they’re having one drink, but they’re actually having two or two-and-a-half or three, just in one glass,” Saitz says.

“Most people are not aware of what are considered risky amounts of alcohol or heavy amounts of alcohol, and when I talk to people about what they actually are – that is, scientifically what we know are the amounts that can increase health consequences pretty clearly – people are usually surprised.”

The trends point to the need to improve communication between physicians and patients about drinking habits before patients get to the stage of needing a new liver, says Aaron White, senior scientific advisor to the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and an author of the NIAAA study.

Patricia Powell, NIAAA’s deputy director, adds that physicians are starting to recognize that “in order to treat a whole person, it’s really important to understand the level

of alcohol consumption because it can affect so many things, even insidiously.”

“We are absolutely not neoprohibitionists – none of us think that alcohol should just disappear off the planet,” White says. Still, “it seems that something has shifted, where … the people who are binge drinking are blowing past that binge threshold” and heightening their risk of a host of health issues. Aside from liver disease, alcohol also is linked to certain types of cancer, for example.

With movements like Dry January and social events specifically without alcohol becoming more popular among millennials, White says some young and middle-aged adults are reevaluating their relationship with the substance from a healthy lifestyle perspective.

Seven months later, Garcia says he’s made several lifestyle changes – including cutting alcohol and most meat products from his diet. But he remains on the transplant waiting list.

“I came from a big drinking culture – a lot of my friends are the same way – so it’s not like it’s unprecedented or just like, ‘Oh my God, I woke up and this happened,’” Garcia says. “But there was no big red flashing warning sign that I (should’ve) stopped at all.”

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