After completing a psychiatry residency at UW Medicine in 1967, Edyth Phillips, MD, married, practiced at Seattle Children’s, raised a family and eventually started a private practice, celebrating 50 years of service in 2017. Recently, her long-standing interest in global health inspired her to invest in work being done by Ann Vander Stoep, PhD, and colleagues that focuses on school-age girls in northern Malawi, a country where parents are raising the first generation of schoolchildren and where poverty and family stress disrupt education. Most girls complete only one or two years of school. In partnership with Saint John of God College of Health Sciences in northern Malawi, Dr. Vander Stoep is helping promote equity by teaching parents how to address children’s emotional health needs and creating positive parenting resources for parents and educational resources for communities so they can support children’s success in school. For Phillips, helping young girls gain access to education — and the opportunities that come with it — seemed like the perfect way to make a difference. Read the full, unedited story at acceleratemed.org.