Purple America is a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our American shared values.
Values-in-Action Foundation empowers students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive values-based decisions every day. To learn more about Project Love, our school-based, character-development initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation, visit www.viafdn.org


John Wilson
Chairman, Purple America, Retired Executive Director, NEA
Mr. Wilson, a long time special education teacher for almost 11 years recently retired as executive director of the National Education Association who, having served on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Learning First Alliance, he was the 2006 recipient of 3E Institute’s Educator 500 President’s Award for being “a true entrepreneurial educator.” He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a B.S. degree in education and a master’s degree.