I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Dr. Evelyn Hooker
Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 10:52AM 
I recently watched a documentary on Dr. Evelyn Hooker, an amazing example of how critical thinking and courage can change a society. Born into poverty in 1907, her mother nevertheless encouraged her children to get an education, saying "they can't take that away from you."
Well, fortune smiled on this brilliant woman, and she worked her way up to a PhD, after initially leaving school at the end of the 3rd grade. Her contribution to all of us was challenging a belief that homosexuality was a disease. Through objective study, using the scientific method, she published a report that eventually removed that faulty thinking. Not an easy task, nor a speedy one, but through steady work she produced compelling evidence.
We are in debt to Dr. Evelyn Hooker for showing us how one woman, despite the odds, can require professionals to rethink time-honored beliefs.
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