By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After retiring from a career in teaching and social work in 2000, Thomas Walz founded the Extend the Dream Foundation (EDF) in Iowa City, Iowa. He had been inspired by Bill Sackter, a mentally challenged man who transformed his mental disability and 43 years of...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
What can health care learn from politics? Inspired by his son’s work on a political campaign, Dr. Donald Berwick, a pediatrician with a master’s degree in public policy, decided to find out. In 2004, at the age of 57, Berwick – and his organization,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Throughout her career as an educator, Carole Artigiani, 69, was impressed with her students’ response to opportunities to learn and take action in addressing critical issues facing their own and communities around the world. She was determined to nurture these...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
While spending a summer in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, in college, Vivian Derryck witnessed firsthand how girls like the daughters of her neighbor Fatamatou worked in the fields while boys attended school. The experience inspired her long career in international...