By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In August 2006, I boarded a plane for Rwanda with my husband, who was conducting a leadership training there. I was 58 and had just retired after 30 years as a psychologist. I met a Rwandan government official whose story changed the course of my life. He was out of...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Every Sunday, many African American gays worship in churches that preach hate and prejudice against them. We sit in silence in the pews even though we are tithing members of the congregation. After Antonia Pantoja, my partner and colleague for 30 years, died of cancer...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I’m a psychoanalyst and photographer. For years, I’ve advocated incorporating mental health care into humanitarian work. My nonprofit Cameras Without Borders has used photography as a therapeutic tool to help more than 500 people in northern Uganda and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2005, I learned about a small and growing movement of parents in Washington state that inspired me. These parents had lost custody of their children to Child Protective Services due to neglect or abuse – and then transformed their lives to get their kids...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As an injury epidemiologist in North Carolina, I’ve spent my career studying how people get hurt. In 2002, while reviewing routine injury data, I made a disturbing discovery: Fatal overdoses from prescription pain medicine were dramatically increasing across the...
