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Sabriye Tenberken embodies the notion that “impossible is nothing.” Born in Germany with a degenerative eye disease, she became totally blind at the age of twelve. Shunned by her friends and patronized by her teachers, Tenberken compensated by doing everything she could to show the world she was “just as good” as a sighted person; but she was miserable. It wasn’t until she enrolled in a boarding school for the […]

I’ve had a hard time facing the subject of human trafficking. Surely we ended slavery a century ago, I told myself. Perhaps activists were overstating the case, using a provocative term, “slavery,” to compel our attention. Then Somaly Mam received a CNN Hero award in 2006 and a primetime national TV audience was introduced to a former sex slave transformed into a radiant survivor, doing daily battle on behalf of […]

Perhaps no issue seems as “impossible” as the prospect of ending war. But Paul K. Chappell is a West Point graduate and Iraq vet who believes that, just as the U.S. abolished slavery, as women gained the right to vote, as an unarmed Indian overthrew the British Empire, we can, must, and will end war. Chappell was born in 1980 and raised in Alabama, the son of a Korean mother and a […]