Denver Lions In-Person Meeting
Date: March 8, 2022
Time: Noon to 1:30 including lunch
Where: Maggianio on 16th Steet Mall
RSVP is attending the meeting
Shine A Light Over 20 years, we’ve shown that kids on the margin of society tell their stories better than anyone else when they have the tools to make movies, songs, comic books, and TV shows
Kurt G. Shaw, SAL's Executive Director, graduated summa cum laude from Williams College and spent almost two years working with grassroots groups in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. A former Fulbright Fellowship recipient, Kurt has studied extensively the relationship between contemporary French philosophy and Liberation Theology. He has worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones, Latin America's premier institute for Liberation Theology, and as a Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, where he worked on US-Cuba relations and governance issues in Chile. After earning a Master's Degree in Religion from Harvard University, Kurt counseled street kids in New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has won the Harvard First Decade Award, the Freedom to Create Youth Award (as advisor), and the Irgard Coninx Human Rights Award. In addition to his books and essays on this site, he has published a novel set among street youth in New York and is finishing a collaborative novel written with ex-child soldiers in Colombia.
www.shinealight,org