Passion to Serve Created Through an SAI Internship Program

Posted on September 4, 2014 by The SAI Team in SAI Blog, SAI Internship Program

Written by Rebecca Reed Flashback: It’s 9am on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. I nervously walk the few steps from my parent’s house to Strategic Applications International’s (SAI) office next door. It is the first day of my internship and I have anxiously done what I could to prepare myself to work with SAI for the […]

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Are We Any Closer to Achieving Sanctity of Life?

By James E. Copple Co-Director, ACT NOWFacilitator of The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing A year before the murder of George Floyd, I was in Minnesota facilitating a working group on police-involved deadly force encounters convened by Attorney General Keith Ellison and John Harrington, Director of Public Safety. The working group was charged […]

The Set Wave of an Aging Activist

Ocean passages on rolling seas; counting waves to challenge the myth of the set wave, where every seventh swell is the largest of a set of 14 waves. Sometimes, it was the fifth; other times it was the ninth. Whatever the number, there was always a wave that appeared too big, that roared and enveloped you.

Crossing the Channel

Pandemic, war, the loss of loved ones, and the machination that is the great wheel of time; all have caused me to consider and share thoughts on my own crossing from life to death, and it’s a sailing metaphor, of course.

Bringing the Light: Bolivia to Eagle Mountain

My early morning trip, with lights sparkling on the horizon in the wintry cold of dawn, reminded me that seekers are the torchlight that feeds the flame – illuminating and healing “the least of these brothers and sisters of mine” while spreading peace and joy.

Cheer Up, You Will Be Dead Soon

Nothing can violate my commitment to protecting and securing life through acts of love and compassion. So, if the state chooses to kill me, it is not the end for me; it is only the beginning.