Linda Lannon and Mary Wallace

Linda Lannon and Mary Wallace

In 2006, Mary Wallace and Linda Lannon were high-level executives at McGraw Hill who struck up a cross-country friendship. Both worked remotely from their homes on opposite coasts – Wallace in Florida and Lannon in California’but collaboration regularly...
Cecilia Nadal

Cecilia Nadal

I’ve spent my life building cross-cultural bridges in St. Louis. For 23 years, I was president of an employment firm that specialized in training employers and low-income job seekers how to transcend class divisions. Since 1996, I have also run Gitana, a...
Adrienne Houel

Adrienne Houel

Adrienne Houel is tackling two of the most pressing needs of low-income urban neighborhoods: clean, affordable housing and steady employment. First, Houel helped create and now runs an affordable housing development outfit in Connecticut called Fairfield County...
Patricia B. Wolff

Patricia B. Wolff

St. Louis–area pediatrician Patricia Wolff first began volunteering on medical missions to poverty-stricken Haiti in 1988 with her two young children in tow. For 15 years she worked to alleviate sickness and hunger, which is especially brutal on Haiti’s children. “I...
Terry Williams

Terry Williams

Joseph Terry Williams spent 40 years in state health and family services agencies, working to help low-income families. Home ownership is the most effective way to lift families out of poverty, but government aid programs were not designed to help families achieve...