Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, was a chemist, engineer, businessman and, most memorably, philanthropist; he was also a scholar, fluent in Russian, French, English and German. Above all, he loved poetry.
“If we spent more time listening to each other, instead of screaming at each other, we’d be a much stronger, happier country.”
-- David Isay, founder of StoryCorps
What I’ve learned through my work with the Festival is that when we work together, we can tap into what I’ve taken to calling “the distributed energy model” of collaboration,
