Khanjan Mehta, the Founding Director of Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program, seeks to harness and guide this exact inherent goodness in his novel the Kochia Chronicles. Mehta believes our generation's compulsion to help could be a wonderful thing if properly executed. “Passion and good intentions are not enough,” he insists. The Kochia Chronicles serve as almost a guide for how to properly instil change.