When Yannick Atanga was a teenager in Cameroon, a basketball scholarship to a school in the U.S. changed his life. Since 2019, he’s been making the same opportunity available to young athletes there now.

Since starting Warriors for African Wildlife, Brad Craven has taken five groups of veterans to help train wildlife rangers to combat poaching.

The photographs Parham Pourahmad has been taking around the South Bay are winning awards around the world.

Dr. Bryant Lin is hoping his cancer journey can be a teaching moment for future physicians.

The Til Valhalla Project, which uses proceeds from the sale of shirts and other merchandise to create memorials for fallen service members, has seen a spike in sales since the incident. Garvin Thomas reports.

Matt Roben and his wife Emily first started rescuing animals in their small Chicago backyard. They now have more than 200 on their 12-acre San Jose ranch.

It was Maeve Smith’s production of “The Hello Girls” in Sonoma earlier this year that ultimately led to Juliette Cortial Smith’s burial site being properly marked.

For years, Sharon Alexander has been feeding those living under Interstate 980 in Oakland – even when her circumstances were not much better. Garvin Thomas reports.

Pat Vandermolen says the work to repair more than 50 sewing machines has not only benefited refugee families, but has helped her heal from trauma from her time as a nurse in the Vietnam War.

Allen Rush studied ways in which AI could aid medical research, such as early detection of cancers like the one his daughter, Jaqueline, died from.

After coaching youth sports for 25 years, Dennis Brown was looking for a new way to give back to his community. He found it by using an old skill.

It is the time of the year when high school seniors are putting together their college applications. In this edition of Bay Area Proud, Garvin Thomas shows how a new fast-growing group is helping parents navigate the system and the stress.

Molly Schauer has found a way to combine her two passions, teaching and horses, in a way that benefits her students. Garvin Thomas reports.