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Barry Childs

Barry Childs

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Barry Childs left Tanzania, his childhood home, as a college-bound teenager, eager to prepare for a comfortable corporate career. When he returned 35 years later, the African country was a vastly different place. It was 1998. AIDS had orphaned an overwhelming number...
Allan Barsema

Allan Barsema

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Allan Barsema was working in the office of his construction company one afternoon when he heard a series of loud thuds. Outside, a homeless man was screaming and throwing himself against the door. A neighborhood coffee shop that had allowed street people to hang out...
Dr. Akbar Ahmed

Dr. Akbar Ahmed

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl (right) has left math equations behind to defy the terrorists who murdered his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in 2002. “If they try to spread division among people, then we ought to spread...
Arlene Blum

Arlene Blum

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In the 1970s, Arlene Blum led the first women’s mountain-climbing teams up the icy slopes of Denali and Annapurna. She still leads Himalayan treks, and she’s also ascending the steps of the state capitol to reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products. Blum...
Dana Freyer

Dana Freyer

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

From the desk of her corner office on the 48th floor of a Times Square skyscraper, Dana Freyer has a sweeping view of some of the most famous landmarks in the world, from the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty. What Freyer can’t see are trees. And yet for...