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What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?

Sometimes a key moment can make a world of difference in our lives. Those moments are deeply underrepresented in our conversations relative to the importance they play in our lives. We hope to begin to remedy that below.

Camilia Majette

In the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to visit my father while he was living and working in South Africa with the U.S. Department of State and USAID during the transition from apartheid. Our home was in Pretoria, and I remember accompanying him on a trip to a town near Soweto, just outside of Johannesburg. Read More>>

Joshua Coogler

I think getting my first macro lens really shaped how I see the world. I remember I took photos of everything I could think of just to see how it would look up close. When I went outside with it, it opened up a whole world of life happening outside that I didn’t know existed before. Read More>>

Antonio Wright

I grew up watching my family live far below their true potential. I refused to repeat that cycle. I made a choice — to live differently, to break free from the patterns I had seen, and to create a life that reached beyond the limits the world placed on them. I wanted more. I fought for more. Read More>>

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