By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As executive editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette , I launched an editorial campaign in 2010 asking readers to identify the biggest problem facing our economically and ethnically diverse community. The answer: childhood obesity. Twenty percent of low-income toddlers...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
During the 25 years I lived in Africa and Asia with my husband, who was a diplomat in the U.S. foreign service , I tried to make a difference. I founded a cross-cultural training company in Taiwan, a volunteer organization for orphans in China and an international...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, I opened the Woodfish Institute in San Francisco to develop and teach innovative approaches to mental health, blending modern psychology with indigenous health practices. I’m a Native American clinical psychologist in private practice. I’ve also...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
St. Louis–area pediatrician Patricia Wolff first began volunteering on medical missions to poverty-stricken Haiti in 1988 with her two young children in tow. For 15 years she worked to alleviate sickness and hunger, which is especially brutal on Haiti’s children. “I...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
From her first day as a student teacher and through 30 years in education, Joan Wylie wanted to help disadvantaged students overcome the sense of failure they had from not having learned to read. In 1998, when she was 52, she led a collaborative of teachers focused on...
