Rick Brooks
Rick Brooks retired after 26 years as an outreach program manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He worked in youth and community development, health promotion, and social marketing in the United States and abroad.
Co-founder of the Little Free Library movement, Rick now lives in Princeton, Illinois and runs Midwest Partners, a civic engagement group with an office in the Amtrak Depot. He is a 1969 anthropology and education graduate of Beloit College.
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Rick Brooks finds inspiration in a crowd-sourced poem by Rebecca Faulkner. -
Rick Brooks urges people to attend a community event at Illinois Valley Community College about housing the unhoused. -
Rick Brooks revisits a long-overlooked tribute to soldiers -
Need some good news? Rick Brooks has a suggestion. -
Rick Brooks experiences his own Ubuntu revelation regarding his alma mater: "I am because we are." -
From personal experience, Rick Brooks supports Illinois legislation that legalizes euthanasia in some cases. -
Did you get the annual holiday letter? Rick Brooks says, "Here you go. It's a good one!" -
Running a not-for-profit bike shop is a lesson in humanity for Rick Brooks. -
Rick Brooks shares the story of a Wisconsin hero/librarian by way of a talented teen. -
Are you one of the folks complaining about how there's nothing to do this summer? Rick Brooks would like to have a word with you.
