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

Have Fun - Do Good

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. When we do open, and we let that pain through, things can start to move and shift in a way that is very healthy.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Artemisia Gentileschi, a shero of the ancient times, was an Italian painter and is considered one of the greatest and most progressive artists of her generation. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Kennedy University. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. So, we joined forces, he with his tea knowledge and myself.

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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. I sort of started my journey wanting to be an artist, and my mother told me I was too smart for art. Kennedy [University], which is pretty much a transformative art program.

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