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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. Our office in Kigali is sort of in a state of question right now. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. What is the question you wish people would ask you?

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. That's the best question! I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies. Completely random. You will probably effect more change as well. How can they help? Our website is at forgenow.org.