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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.

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7 Words to Avoid During Thanksgiving (and All Year Round)

Whole Whale

History of Thanksgiving. Some take issue with the narrative of Thanksgiving for the way it obscures the long history of war and massacre of European settlers against Native Americans. As a result of that long history, there are many features our language today that are rooted in genocide of Native Americans and remain insensitive.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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