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Lucille Smith

Lucille Smith

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Lucille Smith recalled how a patient once told her that she knew she was having a stroke yet the ailing woman told concerned onlookers, “Don’t call an ambulance! I can’t afford it!” A longtime hospital administrator in Detroit, Smith had heard too may variations of...
Narendra P. Sharma

Narendra P. Sharma

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When he retired in 2005 after three decades in finance and economic development at the World Bank, Narendra Sharma moved to the famous resort island of Hilton Head in South Carolina. Retirement gave way to a higher purpose when he discovered pockets of entrenched...
Jerry Moles

Jerry Moles

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A native son of rural Virginia, Jerry Moles spent decades as a college professor and consultant helping rural communities cultivate productive, income-generating and environmentally friendly agricultural businesses. He worked mostly on the West Coast and in Sri Lanka....
Rebecca Anderson

Rebecca Anderson

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

The Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina – in Appalachia – have long been home to the poorest communities in the state. So in 1994 Rebecca Anderson, now 67, used her two decades of experience in community and economic development to drum up a...