Lucille Smith

Lucille Smith

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

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...
Ruth E. Skovron

Ruth E. Skovron

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...