“Now I’m able to take a deep breath, and when I look back, I just think, ‘What in the hell? How did I get here?’ It was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, but I made it.” For Lori Sartain, owner of Crow Nail Studio in East Sugar House, life did not begin with expectations of comfort, stability, or ease. Dreams of owning a business, buying a home, traveling, or building something beautiful were not part of her childhood. Survival was.

“What we do is share stories. At the very heart of it, we take the written word, the passed-down tale, the brand-new idea, and we project it into real life so a room full of people can feel it together.” As Managing Director of Pioneer Theatre Company, Adrian Budhu lives by those words every day. His life traces a beautiful arc of places, people, and purpose - an arc that explains why that sentence lands with such conviction.

“Once you are at Osher, age does not matter,” said Jill E. Meyer, Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Utah. “The joy of learning is what unites us. It is a place to rediscover passions, meet people who share your interests, and be part of something bigger than yourself.”