By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Preserving Native American language, culture, traditions and land has been a central feature of Henrietta Mann’s work as an educator. But after spending nearly four decades in public higher education, Mann was weary of seeing the continuing achievement gap of Native...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As Judith Broder watched a play documenting the mental anguish some veterans experience after coming come from war, something clicked. As a psychiatrist, she knew that without help some soldiers would never get past what they had seen and done. She also understood...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
“If you don’t like the news, then go out and make some of your own. That’s what I vowed to do,” explains Sims, who left his job with a large seafood company to found an enterprise focused exclusively on artisan and sustainable seafood –...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Barbara Gardner and Ed Moscovitch hoped for big changes when they helped write Massachusetts’ 1993 sweeping education reform law. But years later, Gardner, then a state education official, and Moscovitch, a former state budget director, were disappointed by the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1998, Carol Fennelly was retired from her first career as an advocate for the homeless. She was writing articles on social issues for Sojourners magazine and providing political commentary for a public radio station in Washington, D.C. She’d bought a beach house in...
