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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. One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast. In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. Carry my reusable shopping bag with me almost all of the time.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

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I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. April 10 Call President Bush at 1-800-GENOCIDE and ask the White House to keep its promise by implementing the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (SADA).

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Below is an edited transcript of our conversation on the Big Vision Podcast. Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. You can also listen to it on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Please note that there is a graphic description of what one women endured, but the rest of the interview is very uplifting--I promise! edited transcript below).