By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In August 2006, I boarded a plane for Rwanda with my husband, who was conducting a leadership training there. I was 58 and had just retired after 30 years as a psychologist. I met a Rwandan government official whose story changed the course of my life. He was out of...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2005, I learned about a small and growing movement of parents in Washington state that inspired me. These parents had lost custody of their children to Child Protective Services due to neglect or abuse – and then transformed their lives to get their kids...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2001, my husband and I moved to Houston from Ohio, where I had spent 10 years running a nonprofit labor management organization. I grew its annual budget from $25,000 to $500,000, including raising $1 million to build a rural elementary school science center and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At certain times, a human life takes a quantum leap. That happened to me in 2000 while on a journalism assignment in the Nairobi slums. The activist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai introduced me to a network of women who – without funding – were taking...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 58, Brenda Eheart took early retirement from her decades-long career as a university professor to put her research on the struggles foster kids face into action. “I could not write these things up for academic journals and not do anything about it. I just...
