in November of 2018, American Leadership Forum hosted a retreat called Leading with Purpose with special guests Ellen Grace O’Brian, Author and Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment and Ela Gandhi, Founder of the Gandhi Development Trust in South Africa that continues the nonviolence work of her grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi. ALF Senior Fellow and County Supervisor Dave Cortese walked in with his own special guest – Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Movement and renowned nonviolence leader in her own right. The women had never met before, and we at ALF couldn’t resist the opportunity to host an impromptu dialogue facilitated by Supervisor Cortese, on what keeps them leading with purpose in tireless pursuit of a non-violent world. We share this historic meeting and conversation with you all.