Michael O’Brien

Michael Obrien talks about training to go to India with the Peace Corps in 1973, how growing up in a large family on a Wisconsin dairy farm helped prepare him for that work and how stories and language affect our world view.

Crystal V. Rhodes

African American, Careers

A successful writer and producer of plays and television programs, Crystal Rhodes offers advice to those who have “The call of the dream!”

Tronay Deon Harris

African American, Careers, Military, Parenting, Values

Deon shares the beginning of his life story of escaping poverty and crime that he tells to all of the young African American men he counsels as a police officer / leader in the Our Kids program.

Phyllis Jo Adair-Ward

African American, Broad Ripple, Childhood, Friendship, Oral History, Values

Phyllis Adair-Ward tells the story of discovering two truths: discrimination at Riverside Park and the loving acceptance of her life-long friend, Mr. Quiggles. (A written version of this story appears in her book, “Wind-chimes and Promises.”)

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