Trained as a civil engineer in his home state of Gujarat, India, Mehta moved to the United States to pursue his master’s degree and the chance to combine his engineering skills with his entrepreneurial interests. Read More

It’s a startling paradox: in the U.S., roughly 40 percent of food is thrown away before it has the chance to be sold or eaten—the equivalent of throwing away a Rose Bowl Stadium full of food every day. Read More

Chicago routinely made headlines in 2015—but not always for reasons its leaders would have hoped. Read More

Sociologists, criminologists and economists have spent more than a decade hypothesizing about the root causes for the 1990s' dramatic decline in urban violence. Read More

“Evolve or die.” That motto has guided Gregory J. Gordon through the last 30-plus years of life in San Francisco. Read More