Why did you decide to leave Beyond Borders and its sister organization, Fondasyon Limyè Lavi?”
Deciding and acting with the long-term in mind. This phrase has become nearly a mantra for me as I go about my work. To illustrate why, I would like to tell you about some topics currently buzzing around certain circles in Haiti. They concern crises happening in two different organizations in which both cases their founders, American missionaries, never developed local leadership. Now, 50 years later, after the founder of one has passed away, and the founder of the other prepares to retire in the U.S., people fear that some hospitals, clinics, and hundreds of schools might close. Tens of thousands of lives are going to be negatively effected. With this in mind, I have two goals regarding the long-term: 1) I want organizations and programs that I have helped to found continue to evolve in healthy ways long after I am gone. 2) I would also like to support other leaders as they nurture a culture within their respective organizations in which multi-level leadership is continuously develope
