Carol Diggs

“The law is reason free from passion,” according to Aristotle. Keeping the law honest is the mission of The Innocence Project at UVA’s School of Law. For more than a decade, the university’s program has offered investigative and litigation assistance to wrongly convicted inmates who cannot afford representation for lengthy and expensive appeals. Under the […]

Allison Wickham grew up as “an outdoor farm kid, covered in dirt and bug bites,” she says. Now she is a CEO, proudly wearing her corporate merch: a T-shirt saying “Pollinat(or) Else.” As founder, owner, and queen bee at Siller Pollinator Company, Wickham’s mission is supporting pollinator populations. While many people know about the threats […]

Mother Tree Wellness believes mothers need a village. Local counselors Holly Kennedy and Ellen Jones both became moms in 2012, and bonded over the world-shaking changes motherhood brings. They’ve joined forces to offer both private coaching and group sessions on everything from pre- and post-natal counseling and relationship challenges to time management, de-stressing, and work-life […]

Kids—sometimes you have to get them out of the house. Luckily, Charlottesville also offers a range of children’s activities, from drop-ins to weekly classes, that get everyone from infants to adults moving. A change from screens Bounce Play-n-Create is owned by a Charlottesville mom of four who revitalized the place during COVID to offer both […]