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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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. It had been bombed.

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

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Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. You can read the edited transcript below, or listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast homepage , or on iTunes. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. So, we fill in for them. Visiting the Hon.

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