When the company asked me to join, I agreed, welcoming the opportunity to contribute my perspective as a conservative leader — and to test my thinking with council members who might not necessarily agree with me.
When Mike Lang, a young adult cancer survivor and producer of the web series "Valleys," asked me to contribute my perspective as the parent caregiver of a young adult living with cancer at his "Lessons from Valleys" session during the OMG 2014 Cancer Summit for Young Adults in Vegas, I jumped at the chance.
In reality, my actual experience ended up contributing a lot to my perspective on how trauma may manifest differently given stronger support, nurturance, and consistency.
But having conversations with other students and my teachers at UCLA and Columbia, I also realized that I was able to contribute a unique perspective because of my background.
Thousands of community members contributed their perspective on the issue and on what MIT could do about it.
Joel Sucher is a writer/filmmaker with Pacific Street Films and has contributed his perspective on foreclosure to publications that include American Banker, In These Times and Huffington Post.
That has really contributed to my understanding and perspective on real estate and transactions.
"I wanted to contribute a different perspective," he said.
Ola Abiose, A student at The Washington University in St . Louis contributed from the perspective of a resident in another city with a large homeless population.
JL contributed a Gerontological ED perspective.
All 105 respondents contributed valuable perspectives about the future of humanity the good, the bad, the ugly, and the phenomenally weird.
