Donald Frazier, seen here leading a meeting for a new housing project, has dedicated most of his career to providing much needed social services and equal opportunities for the Black community. (Photos courtesy of BOSS)

Not many people think of Arizona as the land of self-discovery, but for Donald Frazier, it changed the course of his life.  

In 1989, after a childhood informed by poverty in Chicago and some time moving around the Southwest, Frazier enrolled at the Amity Foundation treatment center in Tucson to address his alcoholism. For years, Frazier had been unable to define the origin of his trauma, before acknowledging multiple institutional factors were at play.

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