When it comes to homelessness, we've been asking ourselves the wrong question for a long time. We've asked, "How do we solve homelessness. " But what if the real question is, "How do we return people to themselves. " Because if we're honest, we've built housing. But what we haven't built were places where people can be returned to themselves with stability, healing, and belonging. The state of homelessness in the United States is dire. Today, we have over 770,000 people experiencing homelessness in the Unit ...

When I was in grad school at Sarah Lawrence, I light designed two shows at the same time. And I remember one day sitting at my console, venting to my lighting mentor about how the side lights don't look right and the back fixtures are focused wrong and how the heck am I going to light a set when there are no scenic items in place. And he turned to me and he said, "Take a walk." And I said, "No, I need to work." He responded, "Let's go outside for 5 minutes." So, we stepped outside of the theater to a beauti ...