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Laura Simms

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

After more than 30 years as a storyteller, writer and teacher, Laura Simms was an Artist in Residence at the Lincoln Center and traveling in Sierra Leone when she met a young orphan, a former child soldier. She adopted him. After watching her son, his friends and...

Heidi Hartmann

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into the Gulf Coast region last year, Dr. Heidi Hartmann, 61, who has long championed research and education as a means to achieve social change, fought back with her tool of choice, an accurate, timely and readable Briefing...

Jackie Savage

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As a consultant to North Carolina’s Work First Business Council, a group of the largest employers in the state, Jackie Savage was assigned to help businesses hire former welfare customers. She saw firsthand how poverty and unemployment wreak havoc on North...

Don Coyhis

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Don Coyhis felt emptiness in sobriety. He found himself going through the motions at support group meetings, disconnected from the reasons why he shouldn’t drink. Searching for understanding, he turned to his Native American roots. During a five-day fast in the...

Christel DeHaan

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Christel DeHaan became a travel industry pioneer when she co-founded Resort Condominiums International, but after selling the company in 1996, she leveraged her entrepreneurial skills to join the fight against poverty. In 1998 she created Christel House International...

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