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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It takes a lot of training on behalf of the project managers that oversee the process. The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. Completely random.