“Why wait to heal, make art from the pain? Why wait to know what makes us the same…”

My Grandma Sally lived through an unimaginable experience, surviving the horrors of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. She taught me many lessons about love and post-traumatic growth in the face of pain.

She inspired me to make a difference in the lives of others because, after all, our existence here is so precious, and there is no time to waste.

The idea of “why wait” became a mantra that has been infused into everything I do, including my work at Reimagine. Grandma Sally’s journey was not in vain. I see her legacy in all of us, for in the face of what’s hard, we all share that same human capacity to meet the storms of life with love and compassion.

This video features some incredible friends who are now responding to loss and adversity similarly, by tapping into that well of humanity that keeps us going, with our heads held high and our hearts still open.