By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In early 1994, Shuman visited an arts-in-education program in several public schools in Harlem, a predominantly low-income neighborhood in New York City. “I was appalled at how these schools appeared,” she recalls. “They were colorless, lifeless, and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, Goldberg – a clinical nutritionist and Chicago television personality – was diagnosed with breast cancer. She documented her cancer journey in the 2002 Emmy Award-winning television special “One Woman’s Story.” The viewer...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As he was moving his daughter into her college dormitory, John Barczyk realized it was the place he read about in the newspaper where a student had fallen to her death after a party. At 53, he decided to use his lifelong expertise in advertising to engage young people...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Bill Raspberry climbed far from his roots in the small town of Okolona, Mississippi to become a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is also a professor at Duke University. Critical to his success, he says, were his parents, who emphasized the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
J. David Nelson joined The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) as its chief operating officer at a critical time. In 2001, the organization, which brings entrepreneurship education to low-income youth, had outgrown the limits of its current...
