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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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Obviously, I'm a big fan (: Below is a transcript from my interview with Reem from the Big Vision Podcast. I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. Kennedy University.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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

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I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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