In this piece, Henry Crown Fellow Bill Browder explores what it is like to be in the crosshairs. For the past nine years, Bill has been fighting for justice in the memory of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who died while in the custody of Russian police. As the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, one of the largest investment funds in Russia, Bill encountered many leaders lapsing on their integrity and succumbing to the pressures of corruption. Now he is on a global campaign to pass laws to punish human rights violators in Russia. It has not been easy. In this piece, we see a snapshot of what it takes to lead with fearlessness.

"The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 – 2018) has been a cornerstone text in the Challenge of Leadership seminar for decades. Telling the story of a utopian city whose success and stability is predicated on the misery of one small child, it has provoked some of the most important questions about privilege, complacency, and the foundations on which society is built. For many, these issues come to a head in the state of race in America, and in 2016, a group of Fellows came together at the Action Forum and pledged to start a movement of national healing, truth, and reconciliation.