By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Roger Campos was a successful lawyer and executive at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, inspired by his hardworking immigrant father who defied stereotypes and built up a successful restaurant business in California. When Campos was 50, his...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At age 63, Inés Pena, a Carmelite nun with a lifetime of work for the destitute behind her, saw that Puerto Rico’s foster care system was not meeting the needs of young girls. In 1993, with her colleagues in the order, she formed Hogares Teresa Toda, a community...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Warren Kantor managed financial services institutions during a long career. Trying to obtain property rebates for his elderly mother opened his eyes to the tremendous difficulties facing older adults in receiving benefits. In 2002, at 61, he created the Foundation to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A retired corporate nutrition scientist and holder of several food-product patents, Steven Soon-Young Kwon was invited to Afghanistan’s Kabul University in 2003 to give a presentation. Appalled at the widespread malnutrition-related illnesses he saw there and...
