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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

I shared about my great-grandmother, “Lil Mama,” who was born in Louisiana 30 years after the end of slavery and lived until 108. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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