Jim Ziolkowski is the co-founder of buildOn, a not-for-profit organization That today supports thousands of inner-city teenagers from across the United States while at the same time transforming communities in some of the world’s poorest countries: Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Nepal. He is the author, with James Hirsch, of the New York Times bestselling memoir entitled Walk in Their Shoes (Free Press).