Seven Keys to Imagination

Wiraqocha leadership: a journey for all

Nearly thirty years after it started in 1971, Mimi Silbert's eyes still shine with genuine excitement and determination when she describes the Delancey Street Foundation to me. Dr Silbert was full of optimism when leaving Berkeley University after completing her PhD degree in criminal psychology and criminology in the late 1960s. She was confident that she had built up a store of knowledge that would allow her to help the people least equipped to face life in society. This small (five-foot), energetic woman started working in the State of California's toughest prisons, applying all the techniques and approaches ...