Paul Tasner

Paul Tasner

I have always worked for others. Some employers have been small start-ups, others large multinationals. But I had never done anything entrepreneurial, until I founded PulpWorks in 2011. My last position was as Senior Director of Operations at a mid-sized consumer...
Young Lee Hertig

Young Lee Hertig

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has said, the most segregated hour in America is 11:00 on Sunday mornings. In 1981, as a first year Asian American seminarian, I was faced with a Eurocentric curriculum that excluded non-white perspectives. That launched my campaign to...
Dawn M. Blackman Sr.

Dawn M. Blackman Sr.

I was a city girl who had worked in a family catering service and in restaurants, but I did not know a thing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I started gardening with 10 neighborhood children. At the time, I had a dress shop on the footpath between my church and their...
Pam Koner

Pam Koner

I started Family-to-Family in 2002 in response to a New York Times article that described an Illinois community so poor that many houses had dirt floors and children went to bed hungry. Moved by the news piece, and up for a challenge, I got on the phone, called the...