Ms. Wheelchair New York 2011, whose moment of clarity at a volcano in Costa Rica empowered her to be an advocate for people with disabilities
Vietnam Vet, whose moral decision not to drop napalm on Vietnamese villagers led to a court martial
African American Activist, whose work as a SNAP enroller shows him the face of rural and urban hunger and poverty and pushes him to activism
White liberal South African, whose mixed-raced family and subsequent coming out as a lesbian subjected her to many levels of discrimination while living under Apartheid.