Articles tagged with wonking-class-hero

University of Georgia professor William Kisaalita engineers simple, practical solutions — a milk chiller, a nutcracker and an egg incubator — for Africa’s rural poor.

Charles Harvey traces the source of widespread arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, setting the stage for programs that could benefit 20 million people.

University of Washington researcher Julia Parrish founded COASST, a nonprofit that allows hundreds of citizens to serve science by cataloging dead birds on West Coast beaches.

With few resources but the force of his title — U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions — Philip Alston holds governments accountable for the politically motivated killings they commit, or ignore.

A Wonking Class Hero profile of a global environmental innovator.

Self-taught private investigator Jim McCloskey has helped free more than three dozen people who were imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.

Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner train home-based child care providers for the poor neighborhoods that need them most.

In the capricious world of nuclear waste, a scientist focuses on promising technologies for the capture and storage of the maddeningly elusive iodine-129.

Julie Cajune leads a groundbreaking Montana initiative to compile American-Indian history and include it in public education.

Professor Nalini Nadkarni enlists a Washington state prison in sustainability research that has turned the prison green — and may help convicts turn their lives around.

Aaron Wolf mediates disputes, helping enemies realize that no one deserves to have the water shut off.

Jock Brandis invented a low-cost, people-powered peanut sheller that could raise millions out of poverty around the world. Now, if someone would just come up with the money to distribute it.

Joanne Goldblum saw poor people reusing disposable diapers and had to do something. Her nonprofit, The Diaper Bank, now gives 150,000 diapers a month to people in need.

Mike Wallace helps climate-savvy investors determine whether companies will prosper or shrivel as carbon dioxide regulation becomes reality.

Biologist Christopher Clark builds sonic buoys that help ships avoid running down the last of the right whales.

Cristi Hegranes and her nonprofit train women around the world so they can help their communities — through journalism.

A Massachusetts architect and a personal solar power system — Portable Light — bring comfort and better medical chances to South African TB patients.