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Leslie Meacham Saunders

Leslie Meacham Saunders

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A longtime manager in charge of creating diverse workplaces, Leslie Meacham Saunders’ life abruptly changed in 2001 when her father suffered a series of strokes and her youngest sister committed suicide, leaving a 7-year-old daughter behind. “Literally overnight I...
Ruth E. Skovron

Ruth E. Skovron

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Ruth Skovron retired to rural Connecticut in 1995 after running a community newspaper in New Jersey, she floundered. “Without the newspaper, and my children now far away, my moorings were gone,” she says. She threw herself into the local government of Falls...
Lucille Smith

Lucille Smith

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Lucille Smith recalled how a patient once told her that she knew she was having a stroke yet the ailing woman told concerned onlookers, “Don’t call an ambulance! I can’t afford it!” A longtime hospital administrator in Detroit, Smith had heard too may variations of...
Richard Ladner

Richard Ladner

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

After 35 years as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, Richard Ladner wanted to move from theory to impact. The hearing son of deaf parents, Ladner combined his expertise in computers and technology with an innate understanding of the needs...