Tom O’Keefe, a 1995 Boston College graduate, has run the Boston Marathon five times. After noting a lack of diversity among the participants in various marathons and road races, he founded Stride for Stride, a non-profit organization dedicated to making races more accessible and diverse. Stride for Stride buys race bibs for immigrant, BIPOC, and low-income runners and since its launch in 2018 has grown to a team of more than 350 runners from some 25 countries. One of these Stride for Stride runners, Jorge Rosales, gave O’Keefe a life-giving gift earlier this year. Rosales donated a kidney to O’Keefe, who was living with end-stage chronic kidney disease. O’Keefe details the heartwarming story in the new book, Kindness: How a Simple Act of Kindness Can Save Your Life. More on their story from Boston’s ABC affiliate WCVB.