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Michael L. Smolens

Michael L. Smolens

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Early in his career in the garment industry, the St. Louis-raised Michael Smolens took his first trip abroad to the southern Philippines. The trip influenced his life’s direction, and he spent the next 30 years doing business with emerging economies. After 9/11, he...
Rosa Hilda Ramos

Rosa Hilda Ramos

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Skyrocketing energy costs in the last four years have devastated Puerto Rico’s economy. Unemployment is at a staggering 16.2 percent. In the face of the crisis, environmental activist Rosa Hilda Ramos searched for a solution. She met with experts in producing oil from...
Nancy Sanford Hughes

Nancy Sanford Hughes

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Nancy Sanford Hughes was at a loss after her husband’s death from cancer in 2001. During their 30-year marriage, she’d been mostly a stay-at-home mom, but one with a yen for travel and adventure. When well-meaning friends suggested she sell her rambling home in...
Michael A. Gould

Michael A. Gould

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1999, Michael Gould’s brother, Allen, made a dying wish. He wanted Gould to use $700,000 from his estate to help low-income youth in Washington, D.C. “I am leaving $700,000 to charity and am too tired now to figure out what to do with it,” he told Gould. “I know...
Stephen Shames

Stephen Shames

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

The life of a child in Uganda can be bleak: More than a million orphans are living with AIDS; millions have been affected by a 20-year war, including tens of thousands of child soldiers; and many live in extreme poverty, with one-third of Ugandans living on $1 a day....