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Liz Lerman on Kindness


March 10, 2017

"I think kindness is a behavior, a skill, it's glue. It's essential to all of our environments."

Liz Lerman is a renowned choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant," a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance and a Deutsch Fellow. In 2016, she was named the first Institute Professor at ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

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