He Called Me “Street Garbage” at the Country Club. He Didn’t Know What Burns Down Empires.

my hand. “You changed everything,” he whispered.

“I changed my response,” I corrected. “Everything else followed.”

Five years after that dinner, we held our first foundation summit in a renovated community center in Columbus. The room pulsed with energy—students, teachers, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, all of them proof that opportunity could be continue reading …