Lessons From Our Time: Calling for Women’s Leadership
The world is reeling out of control. With the many crises we are facing simultaneously, who, we all ask, can lead us out of this time of...
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- Jan 13, 2020
- 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’...
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- Nov 5, 2019
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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....
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- Mar 8, 2015
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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'....
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Mar 9, 2007
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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...
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- 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...
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- Mar 8, 2006
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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,...
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