I wanted to combine my art history and sociology background to create an interdisciplinary project that would make positive change in a D.C. community.

Visual art is an incredibly important component in the development of a child...Our weekly sessions with the children are important to both the children and the volunteers.

The Eagle Endowment grant was a great start.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Having a history of enslavement isn't the most positive thing to identify with.

Reporting positive history opens up customers to competitors -- that's good for consumers. They sell everything else about you but they don't give this up. I think that frustrates a lot of people.