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Pick up the Sunday NYT Magazine: It's All About Empowering, Funding & Educating Women

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The issue includes an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , an interview with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a piece about Women and Philanthropy by Lisa Belkin, and an excerpt from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leading edge organizations are putting the bots to work for social change. Unicef created its own bot, U-Report ,to engage young people on a variety of issues, ranging from climate change. For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. Is it ready to scale?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Before her historic flight, Jemison served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she oversaw the medical system that serviced Peace Corps and U.S. After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Embassy personnel. Nellie Bly. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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In 2006, journalist Mariane Pearl traveled the globe for Glamour magazine to profile women who are changing the world. She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below. For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. BB: You do a lot of interviews. What do you wish people would ask you? I want to talk about this."

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