By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
One afternoon in 1997, Jan Lepore-Jentleson, then the building inspection superintendent for Dayton, Ohio, found herself utterly discouraged. “I remember deciding that I was fed up wasting my time being a bureaucrat, pushing paper and accomplishing little of value for...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Kathleen Taylor, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology who practiced in California, was motivated to join her first medical mission to a developing country in 2003 after two medical scares: her own emergency cardiac surgery at age 56 and just two years later the near...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Hubert Jones didn’t need another project. For five decades, he built and nourished nonprofit organizations that spoke to one of this country’s most enduring struggles: race. He had served as dean of the Boston University School of Social Work for 16 years, the first...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 64, successful public relations and marketing executive Vicki Thomas knew that she was missing something from her life. It wasn’t until she saw a CNN news story in 2010 on injured Iraq veterans Dale Beatty and John Gallina that she realized what it was: a higher...
