What are we going to do? thinks Monica Ruiz. 

It’s April 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic is causing hardships wherever she looks. As executive director of Casa San Jose, a small Pittsburgh-based nonprofit serving the region’s Latino population, Ruiz (SOC WK ’15, ’17G) is hit with the reality that thousands of people and their families—taxpaying people who were left out of the stimulus package and don’t qualify for unemployment—need her help with the most basic needs, such as food, rent and money for utility bills. <Read more>