By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A longtime manager in charge of creating diverse workplaces, Leslie Meacham Saunders’ life abruptly changed in 2001 when her father suffered a series of strokes and her youngest sister committed suicide, leaving a 7-year-old daughter behind. “Literally overnight I...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Nancy Morgans-Ferguson had recently retired from a 30-year career in pharmaceutical and medical sales when one day in 2005 a homeless woman knocked on the door of her church in Chico, Calif. The woman asked for a glass of water, but she needed much more: She had...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Toni Maloney first visited the Kabul Women’s Garden, a shopping center in Afghanistan’s capital city where only women can work or shop, it had no electricity. Kerosene stoves provided the heat for the 5-by-10-foot retail spaces. The marketing executive watched as...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A child of the activist ’60s, Hal Hamilton spent decades in Kentucky as a farmer, rural community activist and nonprofit director. He helped pioneer alternative food and agricultural systems that are kind to the environment and provide a livelihood for small farmers –...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Writer and former English teacher Maggie Shannon knew she wanted to spend her golden years on Maine’s “Golden Pond.” In childhood she had spent every summer on Great Pond, which inspired the play and movie, and her heart drew her back. So when she was in her 60s, she...
