Editing imagination
Superheroes and antiheroes. Snow White and Jedi knights. American Gods and Hellboy. Those are just some of the colorful characters around whom Dave Marshall (Eagle Class of 2000) spends his days. As editor-in-chief of Dark Horse Comics, Marshall oversees...
A Kentucky collector finds purpose in his passion
When Lamont Collins' family moved to a mostly white Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood in the 1960s, he felt like he'd been dropped behind enemy lines (although he was never physically harmed). He survived and thrived in large part because of his athletic...
Aetna’s Rush to Brush program
In 2018, the global health care industry held 1,218 exabytes of data. That’s a staggering figure considering that a single exabyte could hold all the printed material in the Library of Congress 100,000 times over. Moreover, health care’s data storage...
How to have successful conversations about care decisions
Older adults often face hard questions about their end-of-life care: Should my doctors take extraordinary measures to keep me alive? Who should decide what care I receive if I’m not able to speak for myself? Where do I want to spend my last days? And how...
A place for all
Pastor Larry Stoess and his wife, Kathie, create community one meal at a...
Leading with integrity
You could say Rex Tillerson’s path to the corner office began on a portage trail in the Boundary Watters of Minnesota and Ontario. As a 14-year-old Scout from Stillwater, Okla., the future ExxonMobil CEO traveled to the Charles L. Sommers Canoe Base for a...
Courageous conversations at the Human Library
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but most people do exactly that with humans. “We so frequently do judge people by their appearances or their identity or their religion or gender — you name it,” says librarian Susan Lauricella of the Wilton...
Why company leaders need to prioritize their own mental health
As a 28-year-old consultant for Bain, John Donahoe found himself working constantly, traveling frequently, rarely sleeping and always struggling to find some semblance of work-life balance. Then he got a piece of advice that changed — and maybe even saved...