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Madison365 Week in Review for April 5, 2025
In today’s Week in Review from Madison365:
A local mental health provider makes a national splash. An entrepreneurship-focused nonprofit gets a new leader. We also spotlight emerging talent in sports and the arts, share updates in local leadership and business, and offer insights into national events with local relevance.
Catch up on what’s happening in your community:
365 Amplified: Hoops, hope & heated races
NEW PODCAST: This week on 365 Amplified, the crew is back and broadcasting from the new Madison365 HQ at Starting Block in the Spark Building to recap a week filled with local political shakeups, Open Cup soccer drama, and some serious inspiration on and off the court. Listen here or your favorite podcast app!
How a mental health provider from Wisconsin became the face of a national ad campaign
The commercial US Cellular dropped last month runs only about 30 seconds. But it took the better part of a week to create – months, if you include the casting process – and has taken Jeremy Payne on quite a journey in the weeks since it debuted. Read the story & watch the commercial here.
JustDane to revive annual Jazz for Justice event at Cafe CODA
The nonprofit social justice/social service agency JustDane (founded as Madison-area Urban Ministry) is reviving its annual Jazz for Justice event this year at Cafe CODA on Madison’s East Side on Thursday, May 8, 6-10 p.m. More details here.
“I’m excited about the possibilities.” DeAndre Martin takes the helm of CEOs of Tomorrow Inc.
A social entrepreneur from Oklahoma City, DeAndre Martin recently took the helm at CEOs of Tomorrow Inc., a local non-profit that offers programming and products that teach and nurture social entrepreneurship, inspiring youth to transform the world through business solutions that help people, environments, and communities in need. He spoke with our David Dahmer. Read the story here.
Serial entrepreneur Muhammad Shehata launches successful businesses in childcare, trucking and travel to Egypt
Faced between moving back to Egypt or landing a job in the United States, Muhammad Shehata’s life could have panned out differently if his family hadn’t put its roots down in the Midwest.
Shehata is a serial entrepreneur with businesses in childcare, travel and trucking. Previously, he was an architect, but as COVID rocked job security, he thought it was time to bet on himself. Now Shehata finds himself on In Business Madison’s most recent “40 Under 40″ list for his ventures — but his life could have turned out very different. Find out how in this profile by Omar Waheed.
Q&A with Madison La Follette freshman phenom Nyajuacni Riak
Nyajuacni Riak is a 6’2 freshman guard for Madison’s LaFollette High School girls’ basketball team. Riak, who is ranked by ESPN among the best players in the nation, burst onto the high school scene with a 48-point game against Madison East High School last fall. Nicholas Garton has the Q&A here.
“This is a life now:” Q&A with MFA candidate Andrew Chi Keong Yim on poetry, place, and practice
Andrew Chi Keong Yim has a fixation with place. Whether it’s in wandering the fluorescent halls of a mall or by interrogating the role that Asian Americans have in settling on native soil in the so-called United States, Yim is preoccupied with what it means to have, build, lose, and create homes for ourselves. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Yim is the current Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and will be graduating in May. Read Rodlyn-mae Banting’s Q&A here.