By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For 30 years, Abby Mandel worked as a chef, cookbook author, and food columnist, all the while extolling the value of fresh, locally farmed foods – for individuals, the environment, and small farmers. In 1998, the lack of such fresh foods in Chicago spurred...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a high school teacher in Del Paso Heights, Sacramento, one of the most violent neighborhoods in the U.S., I worked for decades to foster peace among students caught up in gang violence. When seven local students were murdered in 1989, I created a peer court for...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2006, Mary Wallace and Linda Lannon were high-level executives at McGraw Hill who struck up a cross-country friendship. Both worked remotely from their homes on opposite coasts – Wallace in Florida and Lannon in California’but collaboration regularly...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I’ve spent my life building cross-cultural bridges in St. Louis. For 23 years, I was president of an employment firm that specialized in training employers and low-income job seekers how to transcend class divisions. Since 1996, I have also run Gitana, a...
