By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Twenty-one years ago, Eva Leivas-Andino, a political refugee from Cuba, was devastated when her son Paolo came out as gay. Terrified of what her family and friends would say she kept her son’s sexual orientation secret. On a visit to New York eight years later, Paolo...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1999, Terrie Cross had just sold her medical equipment business and was asked to help with a problem: 4,000 Medicaid children in Scott County, a government empowerment zone in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee, needed local access to dental care. A new...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The 9/11 attacks spurred Elizabeth and Gifford Pinchot to rethink how they could give back to the world. Long interested in environmental causes, they committed themselves to doing something for the health of the planet. The Pinchots had spent decades running a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Toward the end of her 30-year tenure at the Washington, D.C., Department of Parks and Recreation, Betty Jo Gaines noted an increasing number of homeless families with children. Known for her warmth and passion for families, she started a childcare program in response....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When 11-year-old Nubia Barahona was murdered by her adopted father in South Florida, her body found in a plastic bag, it shocked David Bazerman’s conscience. For years he’d worked to defend the rights of abused, neglected and abandoned children, and knew how the...
