Donald Stedman

Donald Stedman

Unspeakably squalid conditions, screaming, naked people running down hallways – that was the norm at a Tennessee hospital and school for people with severe mental and physical disabilities in the late 1950s. A psychologist-in-training at the time, Donald Stedman...
Dagney Jochem

Dagney Jochem

In the 1990s, HIV/AIDS treatment and services in North Carolina were largely confined to medical clinics, focused primarily on the gay community, and concentrated almost exclusively in large urban areas. Dagney Jochem, a former economic analyst and consultant who...
Herb Sturz

Herb Sturz

A long-time social innovator working behind the scenes on a wide variety of issues, Herb Sturz works to help one population while helping another – what he calls “double or triple social utility.” Most recently, Sturz has focused on two big problems...
Martha Rollins

Martha Rollins

While building an antique business, Martha Franck Rollins became painfully aware of the disconnect between the people of privilege entering the front of her shop and the people in poverty living behind it. In 2001, she created Boaz & Ruth to help some of the 200...