Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed

Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed

UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl (right) has left math equations behind to defy the terrorists who murdered his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in 2002. “If they try to spread division among people, then we ought to spread...
Swaran Dhawan

Swaran Dhawan

As a child in the northern mountains of India, Swaran Dhawan’s father often took her and her siblings to visit patients at a local hospital, many of them veterans of conflict suffering severe ‘shell-shock’ – now known as post-traumatic stress disorder. At the time,...
Nancy Armitage

Nancy Armitage

Nancy Armitage explored a lot of professions through four decades, including flight attendant, project manager, home care salesperson, and art instructor. She was also a lifelong artist who had watched her own mother descend into dementia from Alzheimer’s disease,...
Marcy Adelman

Marcy Adelman

As some of her friends approached old age, Marcy Adelman worried they would have no place to go without fear of discrimination and loneliness. Through her research, the psychologist appreciated the trials of aging within the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
Richard Fahey

Richard Fahey

When environmental lawyer Richard Fahey returned to Liberia in 2009 with his wife, Suzanne, 30 years after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer there, he found a much different place. The country, one of the world’s poorest, was devastated after 14 years of civil war....