The Spirit of Maya Angelou

  “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” —Maya Angelou...

“Your Name Here”—Selling Off Our Civic Pride in the New Gilded Age

LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racially charge comments have been headline news of late, stirring debate ranging from what actually constitutes racism to privacy issues. However, in the midst of these center stage topics, a conversation on the nature of philanthropy emerged. A May 3rd LA Times piece...

“Singers in the Band” Human Trafficking, Sex and the United States Military

Promoting peace includes a process wherein existing inequities are exposed and with the exposure of those injustices, wrongs can be righted.  Exposing the inequities of sex trafficking and United States Army’s complicity is a thirty-year undertaking by filmmaker David Goodman. Mr. Goodman is an Academy...

Peace in Chopin Amid Holocaust—Alice Herz-Sommer Dies at 110

The New York Times by Margalit Fox Feb 27, 2014- Throughout her two years in Theresienstadt, through the hunger and cold and death all around her, through the loss of her mother and husband, Alice Herz-Sommer was sustained by a Polish man who had died long before. His name was Frédéric Chopin. It was...

Pasos Participates In The Acting Together Training For Trainers

Acting Together On the World Stage: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Using the “Toolkit for Continuing the Conversation” La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York City February 25-26, 2012 Program Director Lea Giddins participated in the Acting Together” Training for Trainers. The...