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Robert Gnaizda

Robert Gnaizda

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1966, at the age of 30, Robert Gnaizda co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance to organize and empower farm workers. Five years later, he started one of the nation’s first public interest law firms focusing exclusively on minority rights. But in 1993,...
W. Frederick Shaw

W. Frederick Shaw

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Shaw had been an elementary school teacher and a college professor before he began a 40-year career in international development. He was a faculty member at the School for International Training in Vermont when he was offered the opportunity to implement development...
Dana Dakin

Dana Dakin

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

At age 60, after a successful career in investment marketing, Dana Dakin was ready to hold to the maxim that life is lived in thirds: first you learn, then you earn, then you return. So in 2003, she traveled to Ghana, a country she studied as an undergraduate, to find...
Johanna Crawford

Johanna Crawford

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Johanna Crawford was 13, living in an alcoholic, abusive household, when she watched her father try to kill her mother. The memory never left her, even years later as an adult who had built a string of successful businesses and sold high-end real estate. In 2003,...
Barry Childs

Barry Childs

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Barry Childs left Tanzania, his childhood home, as a college-bound teenager, eager to prepare for a comfortable corporate career. When he returned 35 years later, the African country was a vastly different place. It was 1998. AIDS had orphaned an overwhelming number...