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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

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Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. She graduated from college and is married. She is working two jobs, one is at the Bamboo Indochine store at the airport. The photo above is Keo Savon with me this summer in Cambodia.

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Van Jones Will be Green Advisor to Obama

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According to this AP article , and this New York Times article, Van Jones will be a green jobs adviser for the Obama administration. I had the opportunity to interview Van in the spring of 2007 as he was leaving the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which he co-founded, to start Green for All.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

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Today's New York Times article by Stephanie Strom describes some of the most recent online contests, including the Case Foundation ’s Giving Challenge, a contest conducted through Causes. on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. And we just did.

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Blog Day and One Web Day: Are You Participating?

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August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. On that day, you write a post recommending 5 blogs to read.

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I'm Speaking at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco

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Here is a little blurb about the Conference from their site: "Writing for Change 2007 is a conference for writers of nonfiction books who believe that it is time for their book to be published. When I interviewed Elizabeth last week for the Big Vision Podcast , she described the publishing process as being like a labyrinth.