Patricia Smith Melton

Patricia Smith Melton

Melton recalls thinking the remainder of her life would include “a lot of time in a hammock near the sea,” but after 9/11 she felt inspired to bring women together to move the world in a more peaceful direction. She started by producing a groundbreaking...
Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed

Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed

UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl (right) has left math equations behind to defy the terrorists who murdered his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in 2002. “If they try to spread division among people, then we ought to spread...
Richard Fahey

Richard Fahey

When environmental lawyer Richard Fahey returned to Liberia in 2009 with his wife, Suzanne, 30 years after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer there, he found a much different place. The country, one of the world’s poorest, was devastated after 14 years of civil war....
Phil Borges

Phil Borges

At the age of 45, Phil Borges left a successful orthodontic practice and declared himself a full-time photographer. At 58 and at the peak of international acclaim, Borges turned his talent to a more purposeful passion — expanding children’s worldview and...