Betty Jo-Ann Montgomery Perry

With tears in her eyes, young Betty Jo-Ann listened to her first youth orchestra in NYC and realized that playing music would be a way to escape a life limited by poverty.

Dwayne Moore & Cornelia Davis-Moore

Indiana

The Life Stories Project involves recording and sharing the true stories of everyday people.

Bryan Hudson

African American, Careers, Culture, Indiana, Values

Tired of negative media content in 2000, Bryan Hudson used a Lilly Endowment Grant to establish a Media Camp so that African Americans and other young people could benefit from positive mentoring and learn to be media producers.