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For three decades, attorney Shelly Brown has stood beside young people at their most vulnerable moments—in courtrooms where a single decision can alter the trajectory of an entire life. It’s work that requires equal parts legal expertise and fierce compassion, and it’s shaped everything about how she shows up in the world. Which is exactly why she found her place as a Board Member with Columbia Community Care.

Stephanie Lightfoot is a community builder who sees possibility where others see problems. That spirit drives her work as a board member for Columbia Community Care (CCC), where she’s been supporting Executive Director Erika Strauss Chavarria since the organization’s inception.

Columbia Community Care is proud to partner on this inititiative. “Columbia Community Care is thrilled to team up with the Howard County Food Bank, Roving Radish, DCRS, the RLG Community Foundation, and Glenelg United Methodist Church to launch and sustain community refrigerators that will remain stocked with nutritious food for families in need. This collaboration

Kick off the holidays, feed local families, and party with Grammy-winning hip hop icons Pete Rock and Treach of Naughty By Nature! Sponsored by the Jonathan Johnson Community Coalition, benefitting Columbia Community Care The BonBon Holiday Bash is Columbia’s biggest holiday party and one of Columbia Community Care’s most important fundraisers of the year. All

For more than five years now, thousands of Howard County residents have been able to access healthy, fresh, and delicious culturally-diverse cuisine for free thanks to Columbia Community Care Inc. (CCC), a nonprofit organization founded by Erika Strauss Chavarria during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, Strauss Chavarria was a high school Spanish teacher at