Stories Across the Network

Steven Moss: ”Like many Kellogg Fellows, being constantly mad about social wrongs is in my blood.”

Leamon Abrams: "In my own life, a few people invested a little bit of time to push me this way instead of that way."

Steve Reifenberg: ”Even though not everything is perfect, even though there are still tons of things yet to do on my to-do list, appreciate this moment now.”

J. Regan Thomas: ”A lot of the skills that we began to appreciate and hone in our Kellogg Fellowships have been useful to me.”

William Richardson: ”The issues must be framed in a way that people can find common cause.”

Octaviana Trujillo: ”As a tribe, we have no natural resources, but we have human capital. We need to development our human resources for our own destiny.”

Joline Godfrey: ”Embrace your weirdness.”

Stephanie Clohesy: "I think the fellowship took me off the path of positional leadership. I find that rather paradoxical."

Mary M. Hlalele: ”The essence is in the doing.”

Rebecca Rimel: ”I’m lucky that I have co-workers and family around me that will tell me, as my mother would say, ’that my shoes don’t match.’”

Yvonne Howze: ”I always expect and rely on miracles.”

Lenneal Henderson: ”It’s important to stay in the battle.”

Joyce Wilson: ”People aren’t interested in how much you know, but how much you care.”

Leonard J. Marcus: ”I’ve become passionate about improving leadership in order to improve our preparedness.”

Rumaldo Juarez: ”Did it help our students?”

Michael Wessells: ”Leadership is respecting other people‚’s culture and the wisdom and resilience of local people.”

Leonard Valverde: "It’s not about the successes; it’s about the opposition."

Susan Sygall: ”Amazing things have happened in my life that have allowed me to do work that I’m passionate about.”

Felix Finisterre: ”A simple effort or intervention-sometimes just a phone call."

Gail Small: ”We could all be millionaires, but the Cheyenne people have said ”No” for more than 30 years to the energy companies, there is no analogy in the world to this.”