ALEXANDRA JEANTY-LECLREC
Alexandra Jeanty-Leclerc is an artist, author, and educator with a master’s in Waldorf Education and founder of Mindful Art Education, a nonprofit blending mindfulness, ecology, and the arts. She also leads La Lettre, a French literary group promoting reading for cognitive memory. A certified yoga instructor, meditation coach, and hypnotherapist trained by Marisa Peer, Alexandra is currently pursuing a Master’s in Counseling at Barry University. She is the author of Mindful Pokie, Mindful Chickens, and Unbroken Bonds, a poetic exploration of resilience and healing. Her work reflects her deep belief in the power of art to transform and uplift.
Wistander walked through the school’s courtyard, watching as children ran freely, their laughter echoing against the walls. He pressed a hand to his chest, feeling the steady beat of his heart. Once, he had run for his life. Now, children ran because they were safe, because they had a future that wasn’t stolen from them.
Shakira stood before the finished mural, her masterpiece stretching across the school’s largest wall. It was a tapestry of history and hope: a boy sprinting through a Haitian marketplace, a girl reaching for the sky, a plane soaring above, and, in the center, a great tree with deep roots and golden leaves, sheltering them all. As she ran a hand over the painted surface, she whispered, “Bonds unbroken.”
That night, under a sky full of stars, the four of them stood side by side, looking over the home they had rebuilt, not just in bricks and mortar, but in the lives they had touched. Haiti had shaped them, had scarred them, had nearly broken them. But they had returned. They had healed. And together, they had proven that no distance, no pain, no passage of time could sever the ties that bound them to each other, and to the place where it all began.