Author: Shane McKinney

I feel incredibly fortunate to have been surrounded by truly remarkable adults at a very young and influential age. Long before I understood leadership, service, or responsibility, I was watching it lived out every day. A lot of people say their mother is a saint. I know mine is. I have never met a more…

It all started in Mexico, Missouri. It wasn’t a fairytale—but it is my story. My parents married young and had two children: my sister and me. Like many families, life didn’t unfold exactly as planned, and they eventually divorced. What followed wasn’t instability; it was evolution. My mother later remarried my stepfather, and together they…