Don Wells

Jun 15, 2024 | timesofsandiego.com | Don Wells

A Father’s Day story echoed throughout my life from my very first day. The story goes I was born June 20 on Father’s Day, the first boy-child in my family, named after my father to make it crystal clear I was my father’s son, his Father’s Day gift in 1953. It also meant I arrived with a host of high expectations to live to up to as Donald Wells Jr., expectations that still shape me all these years later. Donald Wells, Sr. was and is my father. Unmistakably and unshakably.

Sep 12, 2023 | sandiegouniontribune.com | Don Wells

Wells is chief empowerment officer of Just in Time for Foster Youth. He has a master’s degree in counseling psychology from National University. He was a Just in Time volunteer for six years before becoming the organization’s first executive director in 2010. He lives in Downtown. Around 1830, the number of American homeless children in large Eastern cities exploded. By 1850, an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 homeless children were among the population of 500,000 living in New York City.

Mar 31, 2023 | thespec.com | Susie O’Brien |Don Wells |Ruth Frager

On Monday, March 20, five McMaster students, members of the group MacDivest, began a hunger strike, to press the university to end its investment in fossil fuels and cancel plans to bring CO2-emitting gas generators on line. The university’s prompt and careful response to the hunger strike — doing daily mental and physical health checks on the students with an emergency response team standing by — is striking in its contrast to its response to the climate emergency.