By Gary Hume | Nov 13, 2015
More than half a lifetime ago, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Monrovia, Liberia, Patricia Foley Hinnen witnessed a horror that she couldn’t comprehend - which ignited a passion to help level the economic playing field for women around the world. Hinnen was...
By Gary Hume | Nov 13, 2015
After a meteoric rise in the advertising industry and running one of the top advertising agencies, I shuttered my doors to build a small consultancy with a big purpose. That is for business to save the world. BrightHouse specializes in articulating and activating...
By Gary Hume | Nov 13, 2015
Jamal Joseph was used to hearing gunshots and sirens. The crack epidemic was raging hard in Harlem in the late 1980s; gang battles were common. But in 1997, everything changed. A 16-year-old neighbor was shot and killed in a nearby housing project. As Joseph’s...
By Gary Hume | Nov 13, 2015
By age 15, Laura Safer had already set her sights on the law. “I came of age during the civil rights movement, when court battles were fought for human rights. I wanted to be part of that.” She became a Legal Services attorney, representing poor tenants,...
By Gary Hume | Nov 13, 2015
Human rights advocate Laurie Ahern has investigated hundreds of institutions for people with disabilities around the world, but she’ll never forget a visit to a Serbian orphanage in 2007. Rows of cribs filled a room that was dark and silent. The cribs were...
