Crossing Bridges, Connecting Lives

2017-06-07T12:59:08-07:00

Mentoring and Storytelling Project Aims to Show Our Commonality This month, at a lunch table in Downtown Los Angeles, unlikely dining companions shared their third meal together: a septuagenarian survivor of the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor alongside a former gang member whose life started in war-torn El Salvador. It was the final sponsored meal of several such new and unlikely sets of friends, brought together through a research project led by faculty member Connie Corley with the help of faculty member and co-researcher David Blake Willis. Photos by David Blake Willis Cruzando Puentes is a mentoring and storytelling project spanning generations [...]