ABOUT THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT The Be Kind People Project (BKPP) puts a spin and adds a few twists to the definition of kindness—and that’s before the popping, locking, and body rolls when the DJ drops the beat. The organization’s encore leadership uses a hip-hop...
ABOUT SUN SOUNDS OF ARIZONA Sun Sounds of Arizona makes current written material accessible through audio for people who cannot read print because of a disability. It is a window to the world for 49,000 listeners. More than 80 percent of Sun Sounds’ 370 active...
ABOUT RUSS PERLICH Russ Perlich, winner of the 2015 Piper Trust Encore Career Prize, is the founder of Act One, a nonprofit that creatively addresses inequity in public schools. Perlich and his wife Linda (known as “Mac”) established Act One in 2011, after 35 years...
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...
