ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

Empowerment 79

Empowerment Literacy Change Arizona 79

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. technological solution.

Develop 59

Develop Oakland Teen Empowerment 59

Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. Heather is pretty proud of the work they’re doing on behalf of Native American children. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search.

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Oklahoma Resource Profile Adobe 47

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment.

Public 41

Public San Francisco Volunteer Los Angeles 41

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching.

Photography 40

Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children. Is it children and literature? Do not isolate.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40