By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After a career with drug manufacturer Merck & Co., Daniel Luhata Shungu retired in 2002 to focus on eradicating onchocerciasis – also known as “river blindness” – a parasitic disease associated with irreversible blindness, severe itching, reduced life span,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, when California created Cesar Chavez Day to honor the labor activist and founder of United Farm Workers of America, then-governor Gray Davis asked social policy advisers Carlos and Linda LeGerrette for ideas for activities. The San Diego natives had worked...
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When 11-year-old Nubia Barahona was murdered by her adopted father in South Florida, her body found in a plastic bag, it shocked David Bazerman’s conscience. For years he’d worked to defend the rights of abused, neglected and abandoned children, and knew how the...
