This week on our Public Affairs Program, Sunday at 5a:

This week our guests are Executive Director Melissa King and Program Manager Marni Kurtz from a terrific mentor program called Athletes For Kids.

Athletes For Kids is unique in that it pairs up high school athletes with younger kids with special needs or disabilities. Growing throughout some of the high schools on the eastside now for 16 years, Athletes For Kids not only enhances the lives of the young “buddies�, but the high school mentors as well.

Always looking to expand, you can volunteer, donate, or just learn more about Athletes For Kids online at www.athletesforkids.org

This week we meet Cathi Rodgveller, the Founder and CEO of Ignite Worldwide.

Cathi tells us of the sometimes 10 to 1 ratio of men to women in tech jobs and the need to shrink that disparity.

Ignite Woldwide’s mission is to create opportunities to spark girls’ excitement about technology careers and inspire them to new possibilities. Girls in grades K-12, and college from all backgrounds interact with professional women in technology careers during the school day. The students are able to glimpse themselves as innovators and entrepreneurs through stories of successful women who work and live in their communities. Working with teachers, Ignite increases girls interest and participation in computer science and engineering classes.

Learn more about Ignite Worldwide online at www.igniteworldwide.org

This week on our Public Affairs Program, Sunday at 5a:

The Woodland Park Zoo considers itself one of the biggest conservation group and not just as an exhibit for animals. This week we’ll meet Peter Zahler, the Vice President of Conservation Initiatives and hear about the recent addition of two rhinoceroses at WPZ, and how the zoo takes part in efforts to preserve the remaining Greater One Horned Rhinos in Asia, as well as other conservation work around the world and right here in the Northwest. Learn more online at www.zoo.org

In our second half its Sunday Morning Magazine with Kate Daniels

July 28th, marks the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which defined American citizenship. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law & History. She is an author and joins us with her new book, directly related to the 14th Amendment–Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.

www.marthasjones.com

This week we hear about the need for foster families. Laurie Hardie is a Foster Family Recruiter with Lutheran Community Services Northwest and Kayla, now an adult, was placed in a foster family through Lutheran Community Services at age 4 and eventually adopted by that foster mother.

There are just under 10,000 kids in foster care in Washington with so many more waiting for a family to care for them, that they spend nights in hotels because there aren’t enough families willing to take a child under their wing.

Learn more about becoming a foster family online at www.familybuildersnw.org