By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Thirty years into a career as a civil rights lawyer, Bergmark knew a lot about how to make the justice system work better for low-income people. In 2003, at the height of her career, she turned her energies toward filling a void in her home state of Mississippi....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Since 2000, Sobel has worked to make known the quiet suffering of single caregivers through the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation, or ASRL, which bears the name of her son. After losing Andre in his teens to an inoperable brain tumor, Sobel reflected on her life...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The timing couldn’t have been better when Thomas Cox walked into the offices of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a Maine nonprofit where he had periodically volunteered during his long career as a private practice lawyer for banks that specialized in debt collection and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As some of her friends approached old age, Marcy Adelman worried they would have no place to go without fear of discrimination and loneliness. Through her research, the psychologist appreciated the trials of aging within the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
