By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
“Business ethics” Isn’t that an oxymoron” I heard that joke a lot in 2004 when I bought Business Ethics , a magazine about corporate responsibility. But more than 40 years as a business journalist and media executive taught me that corporate...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 40 years working in infrastructure development, I helped bring 60 projects to the developing world: electricity, water, light, clean water, sanitation, transportation, telecommunications. These utilities transform lives – but only some lives. The truth is,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Sunflower County sounds like a happy place. But the rural Mississippi Delta county is one of the poorest in the nation. An alarming 54 percent of children live in poverty, and the high school graduation rate is just 59 percent. When I moved back there in 2009 after a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As executive editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette , I launched an editorial campaign in 2010 asking readers to identify the biggest problem facing our economically and ethnically diverse community. The answer: childhood obesity. Twenty percent of low-income toddlers...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
During the 25 years I lived in Africa and Asia with my husband, who was a diplomat in the U.S. foreign service , I tried to make a difference. I founded a cross-cultural training company in Taiwan, a volunteer organization for orphans in China and an international...
