CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio — For 1,148 Cuyahoga County residents who were crippled with medical debt, congratulations, it’s been erased!
And it’s all thanks to the initiative of 20-year-old Shaker Heights native Ethan Khorana.
Khorana currently attends Duke University and is majoring in public policy.
“My organization (The Better Future for Cuyahoga) and me, the mission statement we both have is that we’re trying to eliminate what we call the three evils of Cuyahoga County, which is poverty, violence, and discrimination,” Khorana said. “I really see community organizing as the way to get rid of them.”
One evil Khorana is currently tackling is his neighbors’ poverty by working with a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt as well as a handful of…