By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Kathleen Taylor, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology who practiced in California, was motivated to join her first medical mission to a developing country in 2003 after two medical scares: her own emergency cardiac surgery at age 56 and just two years later the near...
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
While a Fulbright communications professor at the University of Zagreb in 1997, Gary W. Selnow was asked by the U.S. Department of State to visit war-ravaged Vukovar in eastern Croatia to tell schoolteachers about the Internet. But he found no Internet facilities...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Being shuffled from one home to the next and bounced around in the system, foster youth often struggle to trust adults. And after they “age out” of the system at 18, half are unemployed, one-third go on welfare and one-fourth become homeless. That’s...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2005, Molly MacDonald was between jobs, supporting her five children and aging mother, and paying $1200 per month for Cobra health insurance. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two surgeries and six weeks of daily radiation cured her cancer but derailed her...