By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After 25 years at Harvard University, where she taught business and public health, Barrett left academia to start a foundation called the Fledgling Fund. Barrett says she made the decision to switch careers the day after 9/11. She was teaching a class about Martin...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1986, after years as a respected psychotherapist, Gerald Gray was stunned when one client, a refugee, recounted a harrowing story of seeing a photo at a friend’s house of a man who had tortured him. Gray was shocked to learn that torturers and other human...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Ronne Froman’s transition from military to civilian life was relatively easy. The first woman to command the six-state southwest region of the U.S. Navy, she retired as a rear admiral in 2001 after a 31-year naval career. Then she quickly took on a series of executive...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Linda Johnson didn’t want to be another statistic. After retiring at age 60 in 2007 with 39 years of service in education – including 22 as an elementary school principal – Johnson struggled to reduce her adjustable rate mortgage from nearly 12...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Roger Bernier, 61, an epidemiologist with the National Immunization Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), witnessed first hand the deep lack of trust between some citizens and government at a 2001 congressional hearing on vaccinations and the...
