By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Andy Wells grew up on a dairy and grain farm on a reservation in northern Minnesota. A poverty-stricken area home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, it lacked both good schools and a thriving job market. Wells nevertheless managed to get a master’s degree and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A labor organizer for nearly 50 years, Chandler has been engaged with immigrant workers in the labor struggle since his teens. In 2000, he brought immigrants together with labor, religious, and human rights activists and organizations to form the Mississippi...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
On a trip to Alabama in 2004, former Massachusetts state budget director Ed Moscovitch observed a revolutionary approach to help children from poor homes learn to read by providing their teachers with data, coaching and sustained support. Soon after, Moscovitch sat...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Bobbe J. Bridge, who served for two decades as a judge in Washington’s juvenile, superior and State Supreme Court systems, never forgot the troubled youths who had come before her bench in the early years. They often were foster kids with mental health issues who had...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Christine Reams, a longtime social worker in St. Louis, worried about the children. It was 1991, and Reams, then in her 50s and a new employee at Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri (LFCS), listened as parents in crisis came in to ask for the one-time...
