Juliet Iwelunmor has dedicated her career to understanding how these health interventions last over time. A graduate of Penn State University, Iwelunmor focuses on sustaining transformation through empowering groups to embrace planning with the right people, learning about the evidence, and adapting in an era of constant change, while nurturing core values that matter over time. As the founder of Washington University School of Medicine’s Light Institute for Global Health and Transformation, she leads a team of researchers tasked with identifying sustainable trends and technologies with health that reshape every aspect of our lives.  Among her accolades, Iwelunmor has received the Deans Impact Award at the Washington University School of Medicine for enduring commitment to community engaged research. She was a recipient for distinguished scholarship in public health and social justice and a proud recipient of the NIH predoctoral grant, her first grant, which sparked her love for grant writing. She is passionate about her research and readily admits that it began from a place of embracing failure (with grants) as an opportunity. Today she has written over 70 grants, many of them unsuccessful, but pivotal for teaching us why failure and dreaming about ambitious ideas are crucial, as they have both helped her secure over $30 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Her ongoing grants and grant writing process not only reshape the ever-evolving health needs and desires of communities but also serve as inspiration as to why being bold with your ideas, even if they fail, is everyone’s responsibility.