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Ben Kneppers grew up in Cape Cod swimming in the ocean every day, learning at a young age the profound specialness of the sea. About 5 years ago, he was sent to Chile for work and stumbled upon an opportunity to start an environmentally-focused startup and it just felt right. “For as much doom and gloom as we cast on…
Eating healthy ain’t always easy, especially when you get your groceries at the food bank. Atlanta residents Craig Durkin and Aubrey Daniels wanted to help change that when they started Concrete Jungle in 2009, a volunteer-run urban foraging program that distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to local food banks. What started as an adventure across the city to find free…
Joan Mulholland was at the Woolworth counter for the famous sit-in and in the mix at Civil Rights marches all over the south. She was just a teen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but she was fiercely dedicated to the idea of a human family. “The worst they could do was kill us,” said Mulholland. And dang did…
In 2011, Topher White was hiking in an Indonesian rainforest when he happened upon an illegal logger cutting down trees, masked by the sound of birds and bugs. Declining rainforests is a big contributing factor to climate change, and the UN reported that 90% of deforestation is illegal. On seeing this illegal logger, White, who used to work as a…
Jane Matilda Bolin was born in 1908 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her father owned his own legal practice so Jane grew up steeped in conversation and books on law. Despite warnings from her dad, she knew at a young age that this was her calling as well. “It is easy to imagine how a young, protected child who sees portrayals…
Born from flames of the 2016 election, Crooked Media rose from the ashes like a magnificent phoenix and jettisoned straight into podcast fame. Built by former Obama staffers, veteran journalists, and grassroots activists, this primarily pod-based media company offers up levity, accessibility, and unlikely conversations. “We couldn’t find a place to talk about politics the way actual human beings talk.…
Norma turned 90 and hit the road. It also was a trip to celebrate the end of her life. How’s that for badass and extremely poignant? It went like this: In the span of two weeks, 90-year-old Norma Jean Bauerschmidt’s husband died AND she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Instead of hitting the chemo, she said, “I’m hitting the road.” With…
Most history books forget that Claudette Colvin is an African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. It was March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Colvin paid her fare and refused to get up from the seat for a white woman. She’d been studying Black history in high school that month…
Marcenia Lyle “Toni” Stone grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, quickly earning the nickname Tomboy Stone. She was the first girl to land a position in the St. Peter Claver Catholic Church boys’ baseball team and went on to become the first of three women to become professional baseball players. In 1953, Stone signed with the professional ‘Negro…
In 2004, José M. Hernández finally went to the moon after 11 attempts – but how he got there is why he’s the most impressive astronaut in the universe. The child of Mexican migrant workers in California, Hernández remembers the moment he realized he wanted to go to space: “I was hoeing a row of sugar beets in a field…
