Harriet & Jerry Ritzer Memorial Lecture: Brad Aronson, Human Kind

This nation­al best­seller is filled with inspir­ing real-life sto­ries about how one small deed can make a world of dif­fer­ence. Moved by the many demon­stra­tions of ​“human kind­ness” that sup­port­ed Brad Aron­son’s fam­i­ly through his wife’s treat­ment for and recov­ery from leukemia, he writes of the peo­ple who res­cued his fam­i­ly from that dark time, often with the small­est of ges­tures. But that’s only the begin­ning. Know­ing that sim­ple acts of kind­ness trans­form lives across the globe every day, he sought out these sto­ries and shares the best ones here. In HumanKind, you’ll meet the men­tor who changed a child’s life with a sin­gle les­son in shoe tying, the six-year-old who launched a glob­al kind­ness move­ment, and many oth­er heroes. Brad also pro­vides dozens of ways to make a dif­fer­ence through the sim­plest words and deeds, show­ing how each of us has the pow­er to change some­one’s world as well as our own.

HumanKind will touch your heart and remind you of what real­ly matters.