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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. That's the best question!

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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We use journalism because it is a very empowering profession, enabling people to become the "question askers" in their societies. But at the same time, I realized a lot of the limitations that the mainstream model of foreign correspondence often provides. Our office in Kigali is sort of in a state of question right now.