ABOUT THE VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST At 58, Sister Adele O’Sullivan gathered up all her life experiences—Roman Catholic Sister with the Congregation of St. Joseph, pharmacist, medical doctor, advocate for the poor—and took another step in her faith journey....
ABOUT AVEIN SAATY-TAFOYA “I’d had a pretty successful professional career, but I’d forgotten about my own personal development,” Avein Saaty-Tafoya, CEO of Adelante Healthcare, says of her decision to apply for the Piper Fellowship. In this video, Saaty-Tafoya...
ABOUT KEN SCHUTZ Ken Schutz is the executive director of the Desert Botanical Garden, a living collection of 52,000 desert plants, a 50,000 specimen herbarium and a 6,500-volume research library. During his Piper Fellowship in 2003, Schutz spent 3 months in a...
ABOUT KATHRYN BLAKE “What is the relationship between the museum and external experience?” After working in the Phoenix Art Museum for 23 years, Kathryn Blake used the Piper Fellowship to travel the U.S. and abroad, studying museum exhibitions and educational programs...
ABOUT EDMUNDO HIDALGO In 2008, Edmundo Hidalgo visited nonprofits across the country to gain insight on their successes and develop his leadership skills in order to benefit his organization, Chicanos Por La Causa. “If you don’t invest time in yourself, how can you...
