By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a high school teacher in Del Paso Heights, Sacramento, one of the most violent neighborhoods in the U.S., I worked for decades to foster peace among students caught up in gang violence. When seven local students were murdered in 1989, I created a peer court for...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
“Business ethics” Isn’t that an oxymoron” I heard that joke a lot in 2004 when I bought Business Ethics , a magazine about corporate responsibility. But more than 40 years as a business journalist and media executive taught me that corporate...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 40 years working in infrastructure development, I helped bring 60 projects to the developing world: electricity, water, light, clean water, sanitation, transportation, telecommunications. These utilities transform lives – but only some lives. The truth is,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Sunflower County sounds like a happy place. But the rural Mississippi Delta county is one of the poorest in the nation. An alarming 54 percent of children live in poverty, and the high school graduation rate is just 59 percent. When I moved back there in 2009 after a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Dance was my salvation growing up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. It kept me away from alcohol, drugs, jail and teen pregnancy – rites of passage for many of my friends. The arts helped me to think differently about myself. I believe they can do the same for others. I...
