article thumbnail

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. 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.

article thumbnail

Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

It will bring together academics, policy makers, and lawyers. with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. CNN used Twitter data to report on the 2010 World Cup Fever in South Africa. One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK.

Data 60
article thumbnail

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. I sort of started my journey wanting to be an artist, and my mother told me I was too smart for art.

Podcast 40