Innovator: Real People Doing Big Things

Deval Patrick is the current Governor of Massachusetts. He went from the Robert Taylor housing projects on the south side of Chicago, IL to Harvard University to the Governor's mansion. He's broken down doors by becoming the first African American governor elected in Massachusetts. He has also done the unthinkable as a politician: allowing personal experience to alter your political perspective. After years of serving as a lawyer for corporations that fought to deny domestic partnership benefits, he now states that "citizens come before their government as equals."