Take Me with You Contributor(s): Jackson, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590793927 ISBN-13: 9781590793923 Publisher: Select Books (NY) OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - Fundraising & Grants - Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2016029245 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: During the spring of my fourteenth year, I ran away from home. On a cold night in early February, I disappeared into a Kansas snowstorm. My family lived outside Kansas City. For much of our time together, Dad preached at Edwardsville Christian Church. We lived in the parsonage, a two-bedroom box just south of the railroad tracks separating the white and black parts of town. As the Civil Rights movement heated up, Mom crossed the tracks whenever she could. For that, and for other indiscernible reasons, Dad beat her. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jackson, Scott: - Global Impact President and CEO Scott Jackson has worked and traveled from New York to New Delhi, from Washington, D.C., to Dakar, Senegal. His international relief and development efforts have taken him to remote villages in Africa and Asia, to the heart of the Holy Land, and inside some of the most powerful institutions and governments around the world. He's worked in more than sixty countries, met four U.S. presidents and worked with their administrations, and represented international development issues with the offices of U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Hillary Clinton. Before joining Global Impact as CEO in October 2011, Jackson worked in senior posts for World Vision U.S. and PATH. During his early career, he served as assistant to a U.S. congressman and founded an international trade consortium. Before that, he picked strawberries to help feed his family. In 1992 and 1996, Jackson served as part of Bill Clinton's Washington state campaign. In 1992 he held the role of finance director. In 2004, he became a founding member of The ONE Campaign executive committee. A year later he traveled to Uganda to raise awareness about war criminal Joseph Kony. The people Jackson met during that trip moved him deeply, none more than the child he'd first seen on a display board at a World Vision sponsorship concert five years earlier. Scott's relationship with Simon would continue to change both their lives for years to come. |