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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. I studied at Penn State University, working towards a self-designed major in web and multimedia design (when it was just basic HTML and Macromedia Director).

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

Have Fun - Do Good

Pearl has profiled 9 women in 9 countries: Cambodia: Somaly Mam, a former sex worker who founded Acting for Women in Distressing Situations , an organization that rescues sex workers in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and gives them job training.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer. When I was growing up, I was very aware of the class differences, and the different ways that people would treat children who were from lower class families. I was born in India, in Bombay, and I have four brothers and sisters.