To face a difficult past with courage, resilience, and hope. To inspire responsibility for promoting human dignity, freedom, and safety. To bring out the best in each other. To promote civic responsibility while confronting, rejecting, and intefering with the escalating processes that may lead to atrocity and genocide.

I am indebted to Dr. Charles Hildebrandt whose vision created the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in NH and helped to create the Association of Holocaust Organizations - in which I am honored to serve as a Board member. My professional life has been guided by his charge, "To remember and to teach".