Four years before he launched his company, Nesi
reached out to a college friend,
whose family had started AriZona Beverages, a billion - dollar company.
Driven by his love for the ancient texts and by his own need
to find healing following the cruel and protracted deaths of his girlfriend and his father, Doerries began
reaching out through his theater company
to people
whose lives had been devastated by forces beyond their control — members of the military and their
families, health professionals, guards and prisoners inside the giant American incarceration system, individuals and towns and cities reeling in the wake of natural disaster.