Featured Promised Lands

We ask today’s visionaries about their ideas of the promised land. They imagine a range of possibilities for our communities; they talk about struggles and reveal optimism. Hear their ideas, and share your own vision of the promised land. Share the potential you see for your own community.

	Sharon Hanshaw Sharon shares a Promised Land where women from across the world - from her hometown of Biloxi to Copenhagen and India - come together as 'Coastal Women for Change.'
	Nat Turner The founder of Our School at Blair Grocery imagines a Promised Land where kids in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans make "their neighborhood one that they would never want to leave."
	Nalini Nadkarni The Queen of the Canopy imagines her Promised Land as a place where scientists, artists, and religious leaders are brought together and inspired by the natural wonder of trees.
	Robert Redford Longtime environmentalist and activist Robert Redford imagines his Promised Land as a dynamic balance between natural and urban.
	Judy Bonds Judy Bonds' Promised Land is a mountain in West Virginia. That's home to her, and she fights for those mountains every day in her struggle against mountaintop removal and coal mining.
	Tanisha, Anicia, Karrisha, Darren, and Jermaine The kids the Reverend Rivers works with in Boston - Tanisha, Anicia, Karrisha, Darren, and Jermaine – share the Promised Lands they hope for.
	John Kyle Dr. John Kyle, a physician and city councilman in Belfast, says his Promised Land is simply the chance to be a full community again.
	Ken Hechler Former West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler isn't afraid of an uphill battle. He was the only representative of Congress to march with King in Selma. Hechler also marched with Judy Bonds in her fight for justice in coal country. He doesn't know if he'll see his Promised Land.
	Paul Mooney Comedian Paul Mooney isn't usually known for his optimism, but he thinks we may just be on our way to the Promised Land.
	Reverend Eugene Rivers Straight-talker and youth worker the Reverend Eugene Rivers thinks the idea of the Promised Land is changing with the times.