Keith Harris: A Life of Grit, Grace, and Gratitude
Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 3, 1955, and raised in Queens, Keith Eric Harris lived a…
Carlos Spann: The Voice Within
I first met Carlos Spann in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during our undergraduate years. Even then, there was something distinctly…
Valmond “Val” Corbie: The Machinist Who Built a Legacy
Born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad on June 4, 1929, Valmond “Val” Francis Corbie was the third…
Chef Cliff: A Culinary Life Forged in Fire
The arc of a great life often reveals itself not in grand plans, but in the pivots, the…
Genitha Isaac: A Life of Resilience and Purpose
Born in Brooklyn in the 1950s, at a time when the borough was a patchwork of cultures and…
Dave Cieplicki : A Life of Grit, Humor, and Purpose
Jersey City in the 1960s was a place of kinetic energy. It was where Dave spent his boyhood…