By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When my daughter, Gabriella, died in 1999 in a bike accident, my life stopped. My husband and I and our two sons were devastated. Too grief-stricken to continue my law career, I closed my practice and, with the help of family and friends, established The Gabriella...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Dance was my salvation growing up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. It kept me away from alcohol, drugs, jail and teen pregnancy – rites of passage for many of my friends. The arts helped me to think differently about myself. I believe they can do the same for others. I...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Hubert Jones didn’t need another project. For five decades, he built and nourished nonprofit organizations that spoke to one of this country’s most enduring struggles: race. He had served as dean of the Boston University School of Social Work for 16 years, the first...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A longtime manager in charge of creating diverse workplaces, Leslie Meacham Saunders’ life abruptly changed in 2001 when her father suffered a series of strokes and her youngest sister committed suicide, leaving a 7-year-old daughter behind. “Literally overnight I...
