LOS ANGELES — When a four-car accident claimed the lives of Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott in a Manhattan Beach intersection last November, the reverberations were felt more than half a world away.
Stauring and Scott, married 11 years, had been working in refugee camps longer than that, bringing soccer — and hope — to more than 36,000 people in 20 countries. Sara-Christine Dallain, who had worked beside them much of that time, was determined not to let their lives' work die.
"They left some breadcrumbs for us to pick up on," said Dallain, who worked with iACT, the L.A.-based humanitarian nonprofit Stauring and Scott founded, for eight years before returning as interim executive director in January, one of two former staffers who came back to make sure the group's mission continued. "They had left us with a new vision and mission, a strong sense of values and culture and approach.
