Stories Across the Network

Georgia Sorenson: My teachers and parents taught me to ”follow the need.”

Joanne Handy: "Self-awareness is an essential foundation of effective leadership."

John M. Wiemann: ”What appears to be a crisis really isn’t a crisis when you take an analytic view of it.”

James Bell: "Our justice system is one of the few unaccountable systems in the country."

John Castillo: "I enjoy taking concepts or ideas and making them reality."

Jean Quan: ”I stay in politics because it gives me an incredible opportunity to stand in thousands of people’s shoes and see their perspectives.”

Lucinda Kurtz: ”The greatest challenge is to go deeply into myself and explore the inner paths and treasures I can find there.”

Mahmud Duwayri: ”I tend to measure my own impact by following the successes of my students.”

Matthew Quinn: Helping talented, needy, motivated young people.

Oran Hesterman: ”To become an effective leader, we have to put ourselves in uncomfortable situations where people don’t agree with each other.”

Oswaldo Y. Tanaka: ”A crisis is always an opportunity to grow, to understand life. It is there for our growing process. Go deeply in any crisis that presents itself.”

Patrick Bassett: "think globally, act locally."

Beverly Guy-Sheftall: "In these anti-liberal, anti-progressive times, it's important for people to remain radical."

Paul Hill, Jr.: "Success is based on the fruit we bear in the October of our lives."

Peter Linkow: "Making a difference has a face."

Bliss Browne: "How many caterpillars turn into butterflies."

Rick Jackson: "I look for ”aliveness” on the part of the people."

Roger Casey: ”Ignore structure. Structure in higher education is the biggest impediment to getting anything done.”

Suzanne Burgoyne: " I believe that theatre can contribute to making a better world."

Sally Z. Hare: ”I lived my questions, not searching for answers, but truly loving the questions, and I landed at the intersection of education and community.”