How music and the arts can reconnect an America in crisis: Neil Giraldo and Andrew MacPherson

This is a moment to act — not just as artists, advocates, and policymakers, but as neighbors and citizens. If we choose connection over distance, collaboration over silence, and creativity over complacency, we can turn this era of disconnection into an age of belonging, write guest columnists Neil Giraldo, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist, songwriter, and producer from Cleveland, and Andrew MacPherson, founder and executive chairman of the Foundation for Social Connection Action Network.