When you hear Michelle and Christopher Kuo play piano together, it’s easy to focus on the extraordinary music. Michelle is a world-class pianist whose story began in Taiwan, where she was a child prodigy. She won the Taiwan National Piano Competition three years in a row as a teenager, later won the National Piano Competition in Hong Kong, studied at the Eastman School of Music and earned her master’s degree from The Juilliard School. She went on to perform at some of the wor

For 6-year-old Satyam, giving back is something he’s grown up seeing his family do--particularly at LSS. His mother, Neetal, serves on the LSS board, and in 2024, the whole family helped mentor a newly arrived Afghan family. But perhaps Satyam’s greatest influence has been his older brother, Jahan. When Jahan was just 7, he inspired friends, family and his community to help children arriving in Jacksonville as refugees. He organized care packages for Afghan and Ukrainian chil

Sometimes, a simple act of kindness can grow into something much bigger. Recently, a group of 57 VyStar Credit Union human resources employees volunteered with Lutheran Social Services as part of VyStar’s Good is Everywhere volunteer campaign. Nine volunteers joined staff from LSS’ Advocacy, Care & Education (ACE) program for a shopping trip to purchase essential toiletry items for clients in the ACE Jail Link initiative, HIV-positive individuals re-integrating into our commu