Inspiring People

For seven years, Angela Torres set her alarm for 4:45 AM. Not because she wanted to — she was, by her own cheerful admission, deeply not a morning person — but because her first shift at the bakery started at 5:30, and the bus took 40 minutes, and there was no room in the schedule … Read more

Nobody expected Marcus to audition. That was the honest truth, and the people who knew him best — his teachers, his classmates, his mother sitting in the third row — would all admit it afterward. Not because they doubted him. Because Marcus had never once in his thirteen years asked to be in the spotlight. … Read more