Chris Field is the Founder and Executive Director of The Mercy Project, a non-profit working in Ghana to prevent kids from being trafficked into labor in small fishing villages.
Field was born in Houston but found his way to College Station where, at 19, he ran for mayor. Later, he started a summer camp, and he founded the Bryan/College Station Marathon.
He’s written a children’s book, Under The Mango Tree: A Story of Friendship and Freedom, which aims to start a dialogue between parents and children about a difficult issue like child labor.
Houston Mattersâ Edel Howlin spoke with Field about what drives him to start non-profits, and live a life slightly less ordinary.
