 Beth is a true visionary who has devoted her entire life to making the world a better place through community engagement. She's developed two projects that continue to do good in the world to this day. The first is the greening of Detroit and the second is the Children's Radio Foundation. The Children's Radio Foundation trains and mentors youth radio reporters. Today, those radio reporters reach 10 million listeners in six different sub-Saharan African countries. So I think that what Beth does better than anyone I know is to build communities. She takes a simple idea, a tree for the greening of Detroit, a radio for the Children's Radio Foundation, and manages to achieve the larger goal of knitting communities. She seems to understand better than anyone I know that social, profound social change comes from community building at a very fundamental level and she has built thousands of communities across Detroit and in Africa, in the six different countries in which the organization is thriving. She's one of the most loving, non-judgmental, caring human beings I've ever known. She is a magnet for children. She's a magnet for children all over the world. She is the consummate listener. When you are with Beth Sacks, you are the only person in the room and you are enhanced by that encounter. And because of that, again, she's a magnet for people. I think that Beth is the embodiment of the core values of Gustavus. She has gone out with her education and used it to make the world a better place.