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JUNE 29, 2010

There are many examples like that of efforts to create markets to help entrepreneurs build their cultural enterprises. For example, organic and fair trade yogurt, or coffee, which helps the coffee growers in Latin America. For example, I'd seen potters in Peru whose tradition was to make clay water jars for their community.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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JULY 23, 2018

One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. So they really helped us expand far more than we would have been able to if we'd been doing this on our own.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change. I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru. I’ve been a guest presenter during their 16-week program where the women learn English and entrepreneurial skills.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. And you have your number one skill, being a farmer. I applied for a Fulbright Fellowship to go back to Peru. You're not going to Peru." They told me, "No, no, you don't speak Spanish.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. That would be my main advice for it.

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JUNE 19, 2006

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way.

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