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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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.” – Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO, ABFE After the session ended, the Shaw band played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Negro National Anthem”). Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change.

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What Pride Month Means To Our Team

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We are working on building a diverse team and ensuring that each member of the team that joins us feels their voice is valuable regardless of their identity. And while Pride is recognized on a large scale for only one month out of the year, to me it is truly a daily mindset of education and elevating marginalized voices.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. There are so many things that one can do to make the world better.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

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And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. And so I think it's easy to forget that we have this global impact as a nation of individuals, right? So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

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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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