Emma's Torch in The New York Times

Profiles of Change: For 7 Women, a Heartfelt Cause Became a Mission

Leaders from around the world explained how they took their passions and concerns and turned them into action.

Kerry Brodie, 33, was a student at the International Culinary Institute in 2016 when she founded Emma’s Torch, a restaurant training program for refugees, asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking who have work authorization in the United States. Before founding Emma’s Torch, she had worked as the director of communications for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and as global press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, a nongovernmental national organization…Read more