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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

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Tensions with North Korea. Amy received her PhD in Human Nutrition, Foods, & Exercise from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has also earned a MSRA in Recreation Administration for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS in Secondary Education from the University of Dayton.

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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

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Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. These kinds of bonds will be key to bridging the university-alumni divide that exists at many institutions, especially as the millennials age into their prime earning years. One of them involved.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

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Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. King understood just how deeply racism is buried in the human soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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After taking degrees at UCLA and Tel Aviv University and completing a tour of duty with the Israeli Army, Keyes became coordinator for democracy programs under famed Soviet dissident and Israeli minister Natan Sharansky. They are the aforementioned CyberDissidents, and Advancing Human Rights, which he co-founded with Robert L.

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

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She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities. Bookshare was there with two offers. One moment made a big impression on me.

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