Born in Iowa and a graduate of Wellesley College, Kathy Eldon has worked as a teacher, journalist, author, film and television producer on three continents. Inspired by her son Dan, a Reuters photojournalist killed in Somalia in l993, she launched Creative Visions Foundation in 1998, which has nurtured hundreds of "creative activists" who use arts and media for social change.
This video was part of a series of vignettes produced by Invision to play onstage at an awards show in Los Angeles, Calif.