By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Wilson Goode is perhaps best known for his two terms as mayor of Philadelphia (from 1984 to 1992). But in 2000, at age 62, Goode earned a Doctorate of Ministry and took a job as director of Amachi, a nonprofit established to help the 7 million children who have one or...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Suzanne Mintz became a family caregiver when her husband, Steven, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1974. In 1997, she left a career in interior architecture to take the reins of the National Family Caregivers Association (now the Caregiver Action Network), a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
African American women are dying at rates that are greater than any other group of women in the United States — and most of these deaths are preventable. That fact inspired Marilyn Gaston (left) and Gayle Porter (right), both accomplished health professionals to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Over the two decades that June Simmons worked as a social worker and administrator at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, she saw a lot that’s right about health care — and a lot that isn’t. Frustrated by the immorality and inefficiency of...
