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Toni Maloney

Toni Maloney

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Toni Maloney first visited the Kabul Women’s Garden, a shopping center in Afghanistan’s capital city where only women can work or shop, it had no electricity. Kerosene stoves provided the heat for the 5-by-10-foot retail spaces. The marketing executive watched as...
Ruth E. Skovron

Ruth E. Skovron

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Ruth Skovron retired to rural Connecticut in 1995 after running a community newspaper in New Jersey, she floundered. “Without the newspaper, and my children now far away, my moorings were gone,” she says. She threw herself into the local government of Falls...
Reverend Violet Little

Reverend Violet Little

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

On a cold day in 2006, the Reverend Violet Little walked into a public transit restroom in Philadelphia. She was exhausted. She’d been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that causes weakness, vision problems and breathing difficulties. Unable to...
Joseph James

Joseph James

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Green-collar jobs are on everyone’s lips – politicians, economists and those fighting for social justice. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who recognized that freedom has little meaning, without the economic wherewithal to enjoy it, James abandoned...