Christy: So, do you want to start by telling us a little bit about your background and what led you to start your organization 4GGL?
Jin In: 4GGL is really my experience but more importantly my life story. I began doing community service since I was eight when I immigrated to the United States and found a mentor who taught me to serve the most vulnerable people in my community. It began in Houston, Texas, then to other large cities across the U.S. (San Francisco, NY, DC…) which expanded to communities around the world experiencing abject poverty. So my community became global. What I didn’t know in the beginning was that I was the poor. I was an immigrant little girl raised by a widow mother. But this mentor – Barbara Crocker - didn’t label me. She simply taught me to serve and to care about people. So it’s difficult to say what came first, my story or the experience. But I believe great innovators and visionaries are those who take chaos or some great injustice that has happened in their lives and turn it into an opportunity to do greater good. They bring order and justice to our world. Read more...
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