By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
John Foley could have retired in 1996 after 34 years of working with schools in Peru. Instead, the Jesuit priest, then 60, returned to the United States to launch the Cristo Rey Network, an innovative approach to Catholic college preparatory education that now serves...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Before 2004, recidivism for inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, La., hovered at around 50 percent. So half of the prisoners who were released routinely landed back in prison. Then Michael Ellerbe showed up. A Southern Baptist pastor, Ellerbe stepped...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A native Cambodian who worked and raised a family in the U.S. for almost 30 years, Paul Chuk knew that educating children in rural areas had long been a problem in Cambodia, a country still recovering from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Because of teacher...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Jim Lientz Jr., a former banker, had been retired for a year when Georgia’s incoming governor called on him to become the state’s first chief operating officer. Taking the role in 2003, Lientz quickly realized that the state government had not been acting as a good...
