ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

On this day, people across the globe are asked to go without shoes in order to feel what it is like for a child to go without shoes. Such clever attention-getting strategies have exposed numerous people to TOMS’ message in a unique way that is bound to stay with them and are crucial to TOMS’ business and philanthropic success.

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APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery. My friend, Ilyse Hogue , introduced me to Anna this summer, and I had the privilege of interviewing her for my podcast. A woman was in there putting the final touches on dinner.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007). Big Vision Podcast'

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. As a small child I was profoundly affected by the glimpses I got into the injustices in the world so I became a human rights lawyer and spent a decade working in places like the Gaza Strip, Timor-Leste and Afghanistan.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I love referring people to you. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people.

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MAY 13, 2009

I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Please note that there is a graphic description of what one women endured, but the rest of the interview is very uplifting--I promise! edited transcript below). We will lose our success.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world. These may not be the most sophisticated antennas, but they work.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

Through the blistering heat and through rain storms, she walked over 150 miles to Bukavu, a village that had become a haven for people fleeing the war. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. And walked. And walked.

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APRIL 2, 2008

I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below. I am quick to remind people in the United States that those rights were fought for. Those are the same struggles that women are facing in other parts of the world today.

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