Sean Wilson discovered the magic of music through the piano. Amid an unpredictable and unsettled home life, Sean found that “music just calmed me and let me express my anger, […]
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Be The Change
Be the Change – Yoshie Muratani
Yoshie Muratani will never forget the exact moment she truly fell in love with music. As the daughter of an operatic singer in the Hyōgo prefecture of Japan, Yoshie had […]
Be the Change: Laurel Tennant
Laurel Tennant began ballet at the age of six in her hometown of Paradise. From then on, Laurel lived and breathed ballet, eagerly coaching younger students as her skills matured […]
Be The Change – April Bennett
Approximately 14,000 K-12 students in California are deaf or hard of hearing. Unfortunately, the dispersion of these students throughout the state often means limited access to educational supports and resources. […]
Jeff Capps: Feeding Needs and Planting Seeds for a Better Tomorrow
“In my mind, being a father and teacher is why I was put on this earth,” says Jeff Capps, culinary arts instructor at Dunsmuir High. “It is not what I […]
Be the Change: Tina Wolfe
In early 2017, as Tina Wolfe sat in the Butte County courthouse listening to the story of a seven-year-old boy’s life falling apart, she felt her own heart falling apart […]
Be The Change – Sommer Grooms
When I say I’m a principal of a juvenile hall, most people say, ‘Wow, that’s a tough job.’ But this is the best job I’ve ever had,” says Sommer Grooms. […]
Be the Change – Neel Bulchandani
When his brother sustained a back injury in high school, it changed Neel Bulchandani’s life. At the time, Neel was working in a lab and feeling less than enthused about […]
Be the Change: Chad McCall
As a disaster relief volunteer, Chad McCall stood amid devastation and rubble in the wake of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Just months before, he had been slogging through the […]
Be the Change: Carrie Powers
“I was suddenly a single, brokenhearted mom with two brokenhearted children,” Carrie Powers remembers. “My whole life had been about the support of women and children, and then I found […]
