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Jeffrey Pryor

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Jeff Pryor’s initiation to a compassionate career came in the third grade when Joyce Kobiyashi refused to go trick-or-treating with him unless he also collected coins for UNICEF. The thought of abandoning the primary goal of candy was beyond him, but Jeff was even more interested in holding Joyce’s hand. So he went trick-or-treating for UNICEF and it changed his life.

Jeff also attributes his lifelong devotion to civil society to his parents and to a host of teachers, professors, and mentors. His high school and college years were filled with volunteerism. He got involved in migrant farm workers’ protests and the ...

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