January 2021 – From Food Inequality to Education to Emergency Funds, Joe and Mary Kay Henson Always Step Up
Lots of people tsk-tsk over civic problems and move on. When Joe and Mary Kay Henson, on the other hand, learned that a majority of Sarasota County elementary school-aged children live in poverty, they decided to “get up off the couch,” as Mary Kay says, and do something about it.
“We’re problem solvers, or at least we like to think we are,” says Mary Kay, a retired IBM marketing manager who moved here from Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband, Joe, a retired tech entrepreneur and CEO of Fortune 500 companies.