“What is going on in our society, and what ways can we change what’s happening?” Lois Thetford asked this in 1970 when she moved to Seattle and worked on grassroots community organizing–something she continues to do in her 80s. Questions that are as pertinent and urgent today as they were then.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Lois since 1995 when I met her when I began working at what was then the independent 45th Street Clinic in Seattle. She is a mentor and an inspiration. We can all use positive change agents in our lives and in our communities. Listen to her story and her perspectives and be thankful there are people like her in our country.