Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh

In 2004, I was unhappy as director of the Village of Arts and Humanities, the organization I co-founded in 1986 to transform North Philadelphia communities through art. I spent most of my time raising funds and managing staff. I yearned to be on the frontlines of...
Mary Wallace

Mary Wallace

In 2006, Mary Wallace and Linda Lannon were high-level executives at McGraw Hill who struck up a cross-country friendship. Both worked remotely from their homes on opposite coasts – Wallace in Florida and Lannon in California’but collaboration regularly...
Dave and Liane Phillips

Dave and Liane Phillips

In 1994, as Dave Phillips approached retirement as the managing director of a large accounting firm, he and his wife, Liane, explored possibilities for work they could do together. Liane Phillips, a former teacher, conducted research, finding that 18 percent of the...
Patricia Foley Hinnen

Patricia Foley Hinnen

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...
Rev. Lottie Jones Hood

Rev. Lottie Jones Hood

When I became the first African-American pastor of the First Congregational Church (FCC) of Detroit in its 150-year history, my European-American and African-American congregants were like two different cultures under one roof. It took me seven years to find a way to...