Changemaker Interview

A conversation with a changemaker.

“Not Yet Grown – Always Changing and Making Change”

(Special Note:  For this week’s feature changemaker interview, Blue Roads welcomes our first guest blogger, Dr. Betty Dore, interviewing changemaker/educator, Mr. Cole Wilder. ) Cole was interviewed using the Blue Roads Changemaker Framework:  Homegrown  Solutions for a Patchwork World.  I first met Cole when he began his Middle School Teacher Preparation Program at Radford University

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The Art of Dance, The Art of Life, The Art of Change – Featuring Carol Crawford Smith

Carol Crawford Smith is the first changemaker representing the arts in this series that celebrates the work and lives of changemakers through the lens of our framework “Homegrown Solutions for a Patchwork World”.  You’ll remember that I interviewed her amazing son, Garland Smith, founder of the Omushana Company, a few weeks back.   When you read

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Meet Garland Smith – Soccer Player, Entrepreneur, Changemaker!

Garland Smith is one impressive entrepreneurial changemaker!  I was fortunate to meet Garland and his family during his childhood schooling at Margaret Beeks Elementary in Blacksburg, Virginia where I was principal in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.   I hadn’t seen him or talked with him in years until I saw a recent ad for

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Liovani Nazario – Champion for Fairness and Equity

I was fortunate to meet Dr. Liovani Nazario during an immersion experience at the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida in October 2019.    As you’ll see and hear, Liovani’s story is a unique and inspired example of “Homegrown Solutions for a Patchwork World”.  Her life resonates with clear themes of fairness and inclusivity. 

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Dana Mortenson – World Savvy Changemaker, Part 1

Dana Mortenson is Co-Founder and CEO of World Savvy, a national education nonprofit committed to “building inclusive, adaptive and future-ready education systems” for over 18 years. World Savvy’s overarching goal is to integrate “cultural and global competence into the ethos and foundations of what we define as quality education.” I can draw a direct line

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