Name:
Candace Peters
Age:
37 years old
Where are you from:
Toledo, Ohio
Where do you live:
Brooklyn, New York
Occupation:
Textile Designer and Yoga Instructor
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for adding value, for bringing something beautiful to the world and for adding to it things that build character for people.
Name:
Alex Collado
Age:
26 years old
Where are you from:
The Lower East Side, New York City
Where do you live:
The Lower East Side, New York City
Occupation:
Deli Manager
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for being a great father
I am not the first to acknowledge the fact that there are no shortcuts to greatness and I will not be the last. Many before me have discovered for themselves that there is, after all, no easy road to extraordinary accomplishment and no unobstructed path to achieving that desired sense of profound self satisfaction and reward. Many more will inevitably conclude the same, and discover for themselves that…
Name:
David Turnley
Age:
55 years old
Where are you from?
Indiana
Where do you live?
New York City
What do you do for a living?
I am a photographer and a filmmaker
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for?
The truth is, I feel like I am so busy living every day that I absolutely never think about my “legacyâ€.
I am also not ready to think about 100 Years from now. The whole idea scares me because I don’t want to contemplate my mortality yet. I think the easier answer for me is just how I can actively live my life. Perhaps that sets a platform for the way I might be remembered.
Do you care about whether or not you are remembered or how you are remembered?
I think inevitably I…
Name:
Simone Lacerda
Age:
26 years old
Where are you from:
Brazil
Where do you live:
Astoria, Queens
Occupation:
I am a waitress and a student
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for being a good psychologist that did something good for kids, that through research was able to find something that could help kids with special needs…
Name:
Mirella Gaillarbois
Age:
55 years old
Where are you from:
Paris, France
Where do you live:
Guadaloupe
Occupation:
Secretary, High School Office
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
C’est une question que je ne me suis jamais posée…. Mais la premiere chose qui me vient a l’esprit est “mes enfants”.
J’ai conssacrer toute ma vie a la reussite de me enfants. Donc, je pense que j’aimerais que ma memoire vive a travers l’education que leur ais donnée et leur reussite d’aujourd’huis….
Tout parent, j’imagine, veux que leurs enfants y arrivent dune maniere….mais c’est tellement speciale de retracer le parcour de ces “35″ dernieres années…. Et aujourd’huis je crois que je peux deja etre fiere d’ou je viens, de mes enfants. Et je pense sue d’ici 100 ans je serais d’autant plus ravis…….»
Name:
Armande Roc
Age:
86 years old
Where are you from:
Port au Prince, Haiti
Where do you live:
New York City
Occupation:
Retired Seamstess
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
For being a strong woman who loved God, my children and my grandchildren and for always believing that good wins over evil
Name:
Mike Westen
Age:
35 years old
Where are you from:
Originally from outside of Philadelphia
Where do you live:
I live in Brooklyn.
Occupation:
I work for “The Man”. I work for an insurance company.
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for my generosity and hopefully my genial personality and that people wanted to be around me…So, that’s what I’m hoping…
Name:
Takara Thomas
Age:
26 years old
Where are you from:
New Haven, Connecticut
Where do you live:
Bed Stuy, Brooklyn
Occupation:
I am an artist and I work for The African Film festival. I also do experimental videos when I have the spare time.
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for doing something good for others…
Name:
Jason Reynolds
Age:
I am 26 years old. I’ll be 27 in a week.
Where are you from:
I am originally from Washington D.C.
Where do you live:
Brooklyn, New York
Occupation:
I work at Rag and Bone clothing store and the other thing I do for the other half of my living is write books for Harper Collins
What are your books about:
I write a lot for young adult and urban kids. Urban novels for kids.
100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:
I want to be remembered for my contribution to the literary arts as somebody who wrote for the urban child, the Black kid in urban America and in other urban communities in the world, telling their stories with grace and dignity and honesty and truth without having it straddle the line of ignorance and brute animalistic carnality as so many people have depicted them…
