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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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.
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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.
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Public officials at just about any level have to follow strict ethical guidelines: Rick Brooks says it's high time the Supreme Court joined them.
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What do Slim Pickens and Scott Horsley have in common? Let Rick Brooks answer his own riddle...
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An exhibit at the Princeton Public Library examines The Four Freedoms. Rick Brooks wants to know what freedom means to you.
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It's a beautiful moonlit night in Sri Lanka and it's your turn to entertain your new friends around the bonfire. Rick Brooks surprised himself.
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Traveling's a real gift for a couple Rick Brooks meets over ice cream cones.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle, restore — Rick Brooks revisits two little letters that are doing remarkable things.
