Horses and people find solace in greener pastures at Southern Reins
Clark Tompkins high fives one of his instructors while riding at Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy June 20. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
This nonprofit creates space for healing and second chances for people with autism, trauma or other diagnoses, and also for horses that had careers in the show ring, on the polo field or elsewhere.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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