Petra Leadership Network
The Petra Foundation seeks out and champions unsung leaders who are making distinctive contributions to the rights, autonomy and dignity of millions who are marginalized in America.
Sustaining its commitment to the Petra Fellows and fostering their collaborations, the foundation strengthens a national network of citizen activists working across the divides of age, ethnicity, class and issue to build a more just society.
Screening Room
Shakespeare Behind Bars
A year-long journey with the Shakespeare Behind Bars theatre troupe led by Petra Fellow Curt Tofteland in the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, a medium-security facility in Kentucky.
Why I Give
Nancy Gertner is a U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Massachusetts, and is on the Petra Board of Trustees.
Print Library
American Veterans and Service Members Survival Guide
"Unless and until the government significantly improves its treatment of veterans... they will have to keep looking to one another for help, as they always have. This veterans' guide looks like a powerful updating of that old tradition."
—New York Times Editorial, Dec. 18, 2008
News
Photo by Jenny Bagert
Listen to 2009 Petra Fellow John Thompson's story of exoneration after 14 years on death row—and seven scheduled execution dates—in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary (BBC World Service's Outlook programme).
Petra Fellow's violin students play for the Obamas
Congratulations to Petra Fellow Roberta Guaspari, who dreamed of her young violinists performing for the new First Family.