By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Lucy Young was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, she was a pastor’s wife in Queens, N.Y., and terrified of death since her two children were just 9 and 10 years old. The Chinese-American, who was more comfortable speaking Chinese than English, was afraid to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For 20 years, Lynne Twist was an executive with The Hunger Project, managing fundraising operations in more than 40 countries and helping raise more than $120 million to alleviate hunger worldwide. But after a deeply personal, spiritual experience while traveling in...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
During the 20 years she ran an adoption agency in California, which has the highest number of foster children in the nation, Gail Johnson Vaughan was routinely dismayed by the assumption – common among professionals in the foster care system – that finding permanent...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Dwight Tillery was mayor of Cincinnati in the early 1990s, he often attended funerals of residents or visited people who were sick. A few years later, Tillery began reading about health disparities. “When I became aware of the extreme difference between the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Marie Wilson, 65, started The White House Project for a critical reason: to get more women in positions of leadership and to get a woman in the White House – as president. Today women represent 51 percent of the population, but only account for 15 percent of...
