Meet Our Advisors: Kurt Aschermann

Professional background: “Teaching, politics/government, March of Dimes, 16 years with Boys & Girls Clubs of America.”

Heroes/role models: Jimmy Carter; Nelson Mandela; Henry David Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Dietrich Bonhoeffer [the German pastor who participated in the German Resistance against Nazism]; and [American journalist, anarchist, social activist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement] Dorothy Day.