Tod Kington
Carbondale, Illinois, United States
<p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I was born, raised, and educated in Carbondale, Illinois. After college, I left to see the world, traveling around Europe, the Far East, the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. There I learned that our own worst enemies are not often who we think they are: sometimes they are ourselves in our own communities. This lesson was driven home when I returned to Carbondale and found the city in urgent need of solutions to transform conflict into connection and understanding.</font></font></font></p>