By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
By 2008, I had enjoyed a long and fruitful legal career in insurance law. I was 62 and primed to make a change. Throughout my career, I had always had significant involvement in social or civil rights activities. Now I wanted the opportunity to do more. That year, I...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1999, we loaned money to a group of young, aspiring, well-educated New Guineans to establish a coffee plantation management business. When the business failed a decade later, we stepped in as owners and managing directors. As retirees, this was an ideal project....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I became a high-school film teacher in 2000, at 51, after mentoring young film students. I thought teaching would be my encore career, but then the world changed, on September 11, 2001. I felt a sense of urgency, to try to interrupt the vicious cycle of violence and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The humanitarian crisis that exists in my region is a “mass disaster.” I choose, however, to avoid the political rhetoric and appeal instead to essential human rights. In 2013, I founded the South Texas Human Rights Center, where I organize community...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
By age 15, Laura Safer had already set her sights on the law. “I came of age during the civil rights movement, when court battles were fought for human rights. I wanted to be part of that.” She became a Legal Services attorney, representing poor tenants,...
