Joan Conn

Joan Conn

On a sailing trip to Cuba in 2002, my husband and I stopped on an island just outside Haiti and discovered a place of complete chaos. I decided I would never go back. But three years later, my husband decided we should return to see if there might be a way to help. I...
Peter Samuelson

Peter Samuelson

The entrepreneurial skills I developed producing 25 motion pictures in 25 years are the same as those needed to solve a gigantic social ill: our collective failure to ensure that foster youth receive the support they need to succeed. I wouldn’ t dare have...
Richard Cizik

Richard Cizik

On a cold December morning in 2008, I sat down with NPR’ s Terri Gross for an interview. My sense of purpose had evolved dramatically over the 25 years leading up to that interview: I had advised President Ronald Reagan on his “Evil Empire” speech,...
Sr. Antoinette (Toni) Temporiti

Sr. Antoinette (Toni) Temporiti

Ever since childhood, I dreamed of going to Africa. In 2003, after four decades in ministry and counseling, I took a sabbatical, trekking to 18 countries, from Cairo to Capetown, with 21 young adults. We traveled by truck and slept in tents. Village women would ask,...