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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. She was also awarded their annual Ida B. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

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Will Coley , Aquifer Media , designs social campaigns and digital storytelling for groups such as ACLU, the Freedom from Fear awards, Rights Working Group, and Public Interest Projects. In 2008 she decided to integrate blogging into her organization’s overall communications plan. and LA Media Reform Group , to name a few.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Our hearts might have been broken that night, but we kept the faith that our child, like Martin Luther King’s own four children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.