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Be the Change: DANNY MUÑOZ
“There’s a little monkey,” says Danny Muñoz, looking into the eager little faces at Gerber Elementary School. “He’s a dreamer. He wants to be a DJ, but he is very […]
Be the Change: Ben Hughes
What activity would motivate you to dedicate 40 years of your life? For Ben Hughes, it’s teaching. In 1963, Ben graduated from Chico State with a major in social science […]
Be The Change — She’om Rose
“Some people,” says She’om Rose, “are guided to go to Mars, create AI or become world leaders. My path is a lot simpler. My part is to anchor the old […]
Be The Change: Jenny Barber
“The thing I love the most about Jenny is that she has a ‘true north,’” says Aaron Hayes. “Her true north is to serve people and when she feels called […]
Be the Change: Sensei Bernie Kelly
Bernie Kelly didn’t know he liked teaching, but he did know he liked karate. So when, in his 20s, his karate teacher Pat Haley offered him free karate lessons in […]
Be The Change: Myriam Kalmogho
The honor of being an ambassador of Africa When Myriam Kalmogho moved to the United States in 2000 to attend Shasta College, she recognized that many people in her new […]
Jenny Lowrey: Transforming Lives from the Ground Up
From the Ground Up Farms in Chico was born out of intense crisis. In 2009, Jenny Lowrey found herself facing the death of her husband, the disintegration of her health […]
Be the Change – Sean Wilson
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, […]
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 […]
