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To achieve lasting change sometimes requires the hard, even radical, choice of partnering with people you’d least expect. Justice reform advocate Nisha Anand shares her story of working with her ideological opposite to make history and save lives — and urges us all to widen our circles in order to make progress with purpose.

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