OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — After losing her father and son in the 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Campus shooting, Mindy Corporon has made it her life's work to encourage inclusion.
"Information about faiths so that there isn't fear or hate. People understand and respect we are human first," Corporon said.
Lasya Kambhampati's high school graduation is on hold – the senior is now helping move the Seven Days fundraiser online as stay-at-home orders have been implemented across the Kansas City metro.
"That's why we moved Seven Days virtual because so many people can be subject to hate while they're sitting at home and online without a support system," Kambhampati said.
Seven Days is a week-long, inter-faith effort to help people better understand one another.
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Congressman Emanuel Cleaver III is one of the Seven Days panelists.
"Build some bridges and encourage and enlighten some people dealing with false assumptions...They'll see despite differences, people can come together under the banner of love," Cleaver said.
The Corporon family has channeled their grief into resilient fundraising efforts, like the ones happening this week, and they want to share that resilience with area families.
"Resilience means to me to find your onward," Corporon said, "being able to, after you sat with grief and spend time thinking how you feel and what's going on with your emotions and situation, resilience is moving onward."
Moving onward online, to spread that message of interconnected inclusion.
