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“I believe my life can make a difference, and it’s my responsibility to make sure that happens,” says Susan, executive director of the National Conference for Community and Justice, a group that works to build a community free of bias, bigotry and racism. “We all have a responsibility to make sure the world’s a better place.” The child of Holocaust survivors, Susan spent 20 years working to promote social justice in Israel before coming to Greensboro in 2007. Her message, through programs such as the Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award dinner and Anytown, an intensive youth workshop, is consistent – that it only takes one person to stand up for what is right. “Sometimes we look at the macro level and how complicated problems are. That can be paralyzing. I don’t have to bring about world peace tomorrow. There are plenty of intermediate steps, very small steps that can change the entire world.”