Shakea Roper didn’t imagine she would become a leader in her neighborhood.
“I really am more of, like, an introvert,” the 41-year-old social worker says. “I wave to my neighbors if they wave, I might have a little chit-chat, but that’s the extent.”
Even so, Roper has created a weekly walking group in one of Kansas City’s historically disadvantaged neighborhoods that encourages a healthy lifestyle and builds community…