Skip to main content

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Inspired by her son, Isidoro, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, Annah Abetti Korpi is working to make school playgrounds inclusive for children with disabilities. Korpi began a campaign that raised nearly $365,000 to finance a playground renovation at her son’s school, Alexander Elementary School, in Albany, Ohio.

Read about Korpi’s mission

Annah Abetti Korpi smiles into the camera as she crouches next to her son, Isidoro Korpi, who sits in a wheelchair. There is a playground in the background. Annah is wearing a gray shirt with pink, red, blue and yellow stripes and Isidoro is wearing a gray T-shirt and blue pants.
Maryam Keshavarz never dreamed of becoming a filmmaker when she was a Northwestern student in the mid-1990s. The daughter of Iranian immigrants didn’t know that world existed.

Learn what inspired Keshavarz

filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz on the set of The Persian Version