Gary Slutkin

Gary Slutkin

Physician Gary Slutkin spent 20 years working to reduce rates of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and AIDS, in the United States and Africa. In 1995, after 10 years living abroad, he returned home to Chicago. Noting the high rate of lethal violence among...
Jan Lepore-Jentleson

Jan Lepore-Jentleson

One afternoon in 1997, Jan Lepore-Jentleson, then the building inspection superintendent for Dayton, Ohio, found herself utterly discouraged. “I remember deciding that I was fed up wasting my time being a bureaucrat, pushing paper and accomplishing little of value for...
Iray Nabatoff

Iray Nabatoff

For two decades, Iray Nabatoff had volunteered at The Community Kitchen in Keene, NH, which provides emergency food assistance to more than 12,000 men, women and children a year. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005—and the world watched in horror...
Michael A. Gould

Michael A. Gould

In 1999, Michael Gould’s brother, Allen, made a dying wish. He wanted Gould to use $700,000 from his estate to help low-income youth in Washington, D.C. “I am leaving $700,000 to charity and am too tired now to figure out what to do with it,” he told Gould. “I know...