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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

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Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. Dining for Women was one of the evening's sponsors.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He was the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. Cross-posted from BlogHer. That's when I think my worldview was originally rocked.