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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They can create the change makers.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program. It was wonderful.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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