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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. That's the best question!

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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That's a great question and it's very true. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. Or, you have to grow to a demand. I've got this.

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

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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. I took my 14-year-old with me to Kenya this past March, and it was a life-changing experience. You've also added a travel program.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. My last question is always, "What would you like to ask me?" I would never ask that question.

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

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Alli: Interesting question, like what is the road that gets us anywhere, I think they're always somewhat circuitous and unplanned. Alli: A great question. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She made it almost impossible for me not to look at those questions. I also think I do this work for my daughter.

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