When Ana Carrera arrived in New York from the Dominican Republic, she carried more than luggage. She carried the memory of every person who helped her along the way. "Everyone who supported her in her move," she recalls, "the community help, going to school, knowing she helped people. It all came back to giving back." That spirit of reciprocity now defines her sixteen-year tenure at Pro Bono Counseling, where she has become a quiet force for Maryland's Spanish-speaking commun

Maryland measures just 12,407 square miles, but for someone in crisis on the Eastern Shore, the distance to mental health care can feel infinite. Pro Bono Counseling (PBC) exists to bridge that distance. To connect Marylanders everywhere with free, volunteer-provided mental health support regardless of their ability to pay. But right now, too many communities remain out of reach, and the human cost of those gaps is measured not in miles, but in suffering. PBC is a statewide

In her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall described hope as a small star shining at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Her charge was not to sit and stare, but to roll up her sleeves, climb over, crawl under, and work around the obstacles to reach it. In Maryland’s fragmented landscape of mental healthcare, Pro Bono Counseling (PBC) has been doing exactly that for 35 years. A quiet, relentless force climbing over the obstacle of cost, crawling under the barrier of stigma, and working