I wrote my dissertation with joy + sanity intact because my local cafe held me in life-affirming community. They protected my space where I wrote 6x/wk. So many regulars cheered me on. An older patron once whispered "You're a genius" (I'm not) in my ear, and shared poetry🥹…
In 1971, as part of a prisoner trustee program, then Governor of Georgia Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter hired Mary Prince to be their daughter’s nanny after she’d been convicted of manslaughter.