Building substitute teacher Cathy O’Bee grew up in a small farming town in Ontario, Canada. There she worked on the farm and, during the summer, taught swimming lessons. In high school, O’Bee participated...

At a middle school in Ohio, right outside of Cleaveland, Vera Hazlett walked through the halls of her new school as a seventh grader with her head held low. “They would make fun of me because I was...

Growing up in Rochester, MI, Michael Bakker was a very athletic child. He played, or as he put it, “played or attempted to play” sports all the way from basketball, soccer, football and baseball to...