Russell deLucia

Russell deLucia

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,...
Gloria Carter Dickerson

Gloria Carter Dickerson

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...