Time Zone
Your awareness of where others are in their journey. The ability to meet people in their time, not just yours.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares and the Lotion Bottle Note
Time Zone is about meeting people where they are in their journey, not where you are in yours. Aisha Wallace-Palomares arrived at Otay Mesa as a reporter with a story angle. But holding the note — written by someone who hadn't eaten fresh fruit in 290 days, who threw the same message twice just to be heard — moved her into the detainee's time zone. She stopped being a journalist cataloguing an event and started being a person accountable to someone in a desperate situation. The decision to let the detainees choose whether to publish came from that same place.