By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Raul Yzaguirre grew up in Texas’s impoverished Rio Grande Valley, an experience that imbued in him a lifelong commitment to addressing the social and political challenges facing the American Latino community. Forty years after founding the National Organization...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Lucy Young was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, she was a pastor’s wife in Queens, N.Y., and terrified of death since her two children were just 9 and 10 years old. The Chinese-American, who was more comfortable speaking Chinese than English, was afraid to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For 20 years, Lynne Twist was an executive with The Hunger Project, managing fundraising operations in more than 40 countries and helping raise more than $120 million to alleviate hunger worldwide. But after a deeply personal, spiritual experience while traveling in...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
During the 20 years she ran an adoption agency in California, which has the highest number of foster children in the nation, Gail Johnson Vaughan was routinely dismayed by the assumption – common among professionals in the foster care system – that finding permanent...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Dwight Tillery was mayor of Cincinnati in the early 1990s, he often attended funerals of residents or visited people who were sick. A few years later, Tillery began reading about health disparities. “When I became aware of the extreme difference between the...
