Global Citizen Seeking to Repair the World Michelle Nunn has always required extra pages for her passport; if your father was the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, it is highly likely that your interest in global affairs would have been nurtured all your life,...
This past fall, several hundred people in Madison Park, AL glowed with pride when their native son Eric Motley published his memoirs. Eric was born to a single mother and raised by his grandparents in a town, he remembers as “a close-knit cocoon of several...
A little known fact: Atlanta is the home of America’s third largest arts center (Lincoln and Kennedy Centers are the first and second). An even lesser known fact: Doug Shipman is one of the youngest CEOs of any major arts organization and probably the only...
How in the world did a nice urban boy from New Jersey wind up saving lives and improving farming in Africa? Matt Forti had zero experience in agriculture and had never been to Africa. In 2005, fellow Kellogg classmate Andrew Youn returned from Kenya with...
Jamie Amelio had expected to be overwhelmed by the beauty, history and culture of Cambodia in 2003 when she visited the country for the first time. What she didn’t expect was to discover that she was called to improve the lives of thousands of Cambodian...
Think. Eat. Move. Yes, you!… Ok, me. As bikini season winds down, my healthier life is just beginning. In 55 years around the sun, I’ve rarely missed an occasion to celebrate an occasion, and the bon temps have started to take their toll. So, at the...
If your last name is Allgood, it is practically preordained that you will be a positive force in the universe. Alvin Allgood answered the call to service when he joined the Army in 1983 at age 19. Alvin saw the Army as a place to...
Heeding the Call Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day – ‘tis the season to honor the men and women who serve our country and protect us all. For this time of year, we couldn’t think of a more fitting person to award a Dubrof Impact Star...
Robin Smalley has given birth to two children and life to many millions more. In 2004, bereaved by the death of her mother and her best friend Karen, Robin packed up her husband, two adolescent daughters and a pair of dogs and, with very little...
Mikel was raised on a 400-acre family farm in rural South Carolina. His father left the family when Mikel was six. His mother, with only a high school diploma, went to work as a teacher’s aid and earned both a bachelors and master’s degree while...