By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a young single mother, Carla Kelley learned her middle child was gay. “I knew how dangerous it was to be gay then … and my first instinct was to protect him,” she says. She quickly grew to accept her son’s sexual orientation. Years later, in 1998, she was...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 64, after a career in education and a record of starting programs to ensure equal educational opportunities, Charles Dey was ready for his next career. His long-time friend Alan Reich, who founded the National Organization on Disability (NOD) years earlier when an...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Arthur White was a founder of the public opinion research firm Yankelovich, Skelly & White in 1964, Reading is Fundamental in 1966, and Jobs for the Future in 1983. In 2002, spurred by his experience as a member of the Federal Prison Industries Board, White...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, after his kids left home, financial executive Dori Shimoda revived a promise he had made to himself nearly 20 years earlier, after he survived an 18-hour kidnapping at gunpoint: to help others. Searching for a way, he backpacked around Southeast Asia. As he...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Pediatric surgeon Dr. Barbara Barlow went to work at Harlem Hospital in 1975, eager to serve children who had little hope for surgical care because of limited ability to pay. She was appalled at the fatal injuries she saw that were easily preventable – burns,...
