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Kimberly Weichel

Jan 13
3 min

Sharing Our Stories Matter

I, and everyone I know, loves stories. Stories connect us with our common humanity, our dreams, joys, and challenges. By hearing others’ stories, it gives me...

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Kimberly Weichel

Nov 5, 2019
2 min

Four Ways to Make a Difference Today

I find that most people want to make a difference but are short of time or don’t know how. We can make a difference in many ways, some of which take little t...

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From "Our Voices Matter: Wisdom

Oct 24, 2019
3 min

Six Steps to Developing Resilience

Many people ask me how we can stay balanced in this ever-changing and more demanding world. My response - we need to build our capacity for resilience, a key...

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With Joanne Huskey

Sep 21, 2017
5 min

Our Voices Matter

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have...

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Devin Cowick and Kimberly Weichel

Sep 12, 2017
5 min

Hidden Heroes: The Women Building Our Future

The one thing most people can agree on these days is that we need better answers to overcome the growing violence, discord, misunderstandings and divisions i...

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Kimberly Weichel

Aug 29, 2017
7 min

Building Bridges With Russia: A Citizen Diplomat's Perspective

I recently returned from a remarkable two week fact finding citizen diplomacy trip to Russia with a delegation of 30 professionals from around the US, organi...

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Kimberly Weichel

Jan 4, 2017
5 min

It’s Time to Adopt CEDAW Locally and Nationally

CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is a landmark international agreement that affirms principles of funda...

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Kimberly Weichel

Oct 4, 2016
5 min

Modern Day Slavery: The Insidious Rise of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a global problem that has grown into a multi-billion dollar a year industry. It enslaves people, primarily young women and men, into wha...

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Kimberly Weichel

Sep 3, 2016
4 min

Ending Child Marriage

When Mejgon was 11 years old, her father sold her to a married 60-year-old Afghanistan man for two boxes of heroin. “In my whole life, I’ve never felt love,”...

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Kimberly Weichel

Sep 10, 2015
4 min

Launching New Goals to Improve the Planet

The United Nations General Assembly just adopted new global goals that will galvanize and prioritize the key global issues of our day. Called Global Goals fo...

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Kimberly Weichel

Mar 8, 2015
3 min

Reducing the Harmful Practice of FGM

FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation is the practice, traditional in some cultures, of partially or totally removing the external genitalia of girls and young w...

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Barbara Nusbaum and Kimberly Weichel

Nov 6, 2013
7 min

THE SPIRIT OF UBUNTU IN AMERICA

Ubuntu is an African word that embodies so much of what we seek in society today. In the Xhosa and Zulu languages ubuntu means "people are people through oth...

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by Kimberly Weichel and Dr. Judi Neal

Feb 14, 2013
7 min

Tapping Our Spiritual Intelligence

So much has been said about the importance of developing our IQ, our rational intelligence, and more recently about EQ, our emotional intelligence. We now un...

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Kimberly Weichel and Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D.

Apr 2, 2009
10 min

Living Our Principles in Everyday Life

“The great malady of the 20th century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is 'loss of soul'. When soul is neglecte...

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Bev Scott and Kimberly Weichel

Feb 5, 2009
9 min

The Third Act for Women: Finding Meaning, Joy and Fulfillment

We are the first generation of women who have had careers for most of our lives. We are living lives that most of our parents and grandparents didn’t have a...

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Lewis Griggs and Kimberly Weichel

Jun 11, 2008
4 min

Transforming Diversity: Seeing the Similarities Rather than the Differences

Most of us have been very concerned about the attacks on Arab Americans across the United States since the September 11 terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden ...

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Kimberly Weichel and Cecilia Zamora

Mar 9, 2007
4 min

International Women's Day: Ending Discrimination Against Women

International Women's Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations' days designated to a global issue. Although not well-known, it seeks to highlight t...

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Kimberly Weichel

Jun 20, 2006
11 min

The Soul of Peace

Standing with twelve thousand women from every possible cultural, ethnic and religious group at the extraordinary United Nations Decade for Women conference ...

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Karen Buckley and Kimberly Weichel

Mar 8, 2006
6 min

International Women's Day: Time to Honor the Feminine

International Women’s Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations’ days designated to a key global issue. Although not well known, it seeks to highlig...

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By Gary Davis, Larry Levine and Kimberly Weichel

May 26, 2004
3 min

U. N. Remains Relevant and Vital

We share the worldwide sense of dismay and outrage that the U.S. administration decided to abandon efforts to disarm Iraq by peaceful means through the Unite...

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