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.
Print Library
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
1998 Petra Fellow Frank Bardacke's long-awaited history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers is now available.
"Here are the farmworkers, their skill and endurance, the world they built among themselves, the ways they shaped the history of the UFW. It is their story—refreshingly, sympathetically, and beautifully told—that makes this book stand apart and will make it stand forever."
—Alexander Cockburn
Meet the 2011 Petra Fellows
Visit the Petra YouTube Channel for the rest of the 2011 Fellow videos.
Why I Give
Nancy Gertner was a U.S. District Court Judge (ret.) in the District of Massachusetts, and is on the Petra Board of Trustees.
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.
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.