“I think that love and protection made me survive in the second world war.” Maida Pollock was 22 years old when she was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Now 97 years old, Maida reflects on how the love from her family was an inoculation against long term harm after witnessing the Holocaust.

“A wave is not just a ripple in water, a wave is the thread, visible or not, that unifies pattern.” Everything in life can be viewed as a wave and kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin takes us inside his obsession with wave patterns as he shares his artistic journey of translating their grace into moving works of art.

“So many people’s lives were shortened by me, now I have the opportunity to give back.”  Del Seymour spent 18 years of his life living in the streets of the Tenderloin of San Francisco. Del now works to heal and transform this neighborhood through community development and personal responsibility.

“We are all artists, either consciously or unconsciously.” Born in a bicultural/bilingual home, Rafael's poems are shared in both English and Spanish. A Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & Literature, César E. Chávez Lifetime Award recipient and City of Berkeley's first Poet Laureate, Rafael explores the responsibility we each have as we create the world around us.

“If you love someone, take care of them.” Pearl E. Gates exploded onto the late ‘70s New Wave Punk music scene with her band Pearl Harbor and the Explosions. Her life of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll hit pause when she first decided to care for her father in law. Pearl shares how struggling with depression and being both a stage personality and an off-stage friend has been a dualistic life challenge. Caregiving for her sick friends and family has given her the strength to come out of periods of deep depression.

“You have to persist, you have to believe in yourself when everybody else says it won’t work.”  Born in 1933, Huey Johnson’s life’s work includes being president of the Nature Conservancy, founding The Trust for Public Land, The Grand Canyon Trust and the Resource Renewal Institute. The United Nations has called him "a catalyst and champion for environmental protection.” A self described salesman, Huey abandoned his first career selling plastics and found a way to leverage his salesmanship to fight land development and protect millions of acres of open space.