Pat Cane–This Month’s Featured Reader
Pat Cane, PhD, is Founder and Executive Director of Capacitar International. For more than 33 years, Pat has taught thousands of trainings in over 45 countries.
read morePat Cane, PhD, is Founder and Executive Director of Capacitar International. For more than 33 years, Pat has taught thousands of trainings in over 45 countries.
read moreMariet Verhoef Cohen is Chair/President of Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) and past president of Soroptimist International Europe. She is a dedicated leader, a successful businesswoman, and an expert on water issues.
read moreAngela Peabody is the Executive Director and Founder of Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering women and girls to help end gender-based violence, especially female genital mutilation (FGM).
read moreAfter retiring from her 37-year career as a probation officer, Lee Gale became an actress, author, public speaker, and blogger. Having developed her own second career after she retired, Lee Gale became an expert on helping seniors find fulfillment in their retirement.
read moreMariya Taher is the US Executive Director and one of the founding members in of Sahiyo, an NGO founded in 2015 that works to bring an end to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Asian communities.
read moreSusan Burton is the founder and president of A New Way of Life, a program that provides reentry services for formerly incarcerated women. She strives to mitigage the effects of, and ultimately eliminate, mass incarceration.
read moreMaka Chikowero is a junior in high school in Madison, WI and the founder and president of MTC Educate a Girl Inc
read moreLamia El Sadek, Ph.D is Managing Director of Dignity and Power Now, overseeing the organization’s operational structure and strategic direction.
read moreAthia Carrim is the Director of Education and Interfaith at the International Institute of Tolerance (IIT), an organization she and her husband founded in 2006.
read moreJodie Evans is a political activist, author, documentary film producer, and co-founder of the women’s anti-war activist organization CODEPINK.
read morePamela Anchang is the founder and president of TIM.TV, The Immigrant Magazine TV, which provides a platform for immigrants in the United States.
read moreDr. Saba Tesfayohannes is a founding member and current chair of the board of directors of ERISAT-Eritrean Satellite Television.
read moreSuzanne Taylor produces stimulating events, projects and experiences for sophisticated audiences with a visionary voice that challenges the status quo and helps people feel inspired to shift us from a worldview based on greed to where caring about each other is as important as caring about ourselves.
read moreMeymuna Hussein-Cattan and her mother, Owliya Dima, are co-founders of Tiyya Foundation. As refugees, they knew first-hand the challenges refugees face in resettlement.
read moreLynda “Sunnye” D. Simpson is Vice President, Resource Development at the Tuskeegee Airmen Scholarship Foundation (TASF.) Working for this organization is a way of keeping a family legacy alive.
read moreSenait Admassu, MSW is the founder of the African Communities Public Health Coalition (ACPHC), a Los Angeles based non profit organization which was created from her passion and understanding of the complexities of underserved African Communities.
read moreRoya Adjory was featured in May, 2016 for her work in creating a green hair salon, for which she received a Climate Leader Award and Green Salon Certification. In her search for better and safer salon products, Roya discovered Natulique, a line of products that are organic and free of toxic chemicals. She has become their California distributor, and she has also begun political advocacy work to pass laws requiring safer products and more transparent labeling.
read moreGiselle Malluche is the founder of Change to Humanity, a charity serving the homeless and food-insecure in Atlanta and Clarkston, GA.
read moreAnnelise Schinzinger is an expert in caregiving for the elderly and dying and the author of The Art and Science of Caregiving: Stories of Inspiring Elders with an End-of-Life Guidebook
read moreZebiba Shekhia built a high school for girls in the Eritrean refugee camp in Sudan. Opened in 2010, the school has graduated more than 500 children.
read moreAmanuel “Aman” Berhe is the founder and president of African Missions Empowering Network, (AMEN), a faith-based-Community organization dedicated to advancing health, education, empowerment and solidarity among Eritrean refugees.
read moreRebecca Paida, MPH, CHES is Senior Program Manager at Nile Sisters Development Initiative (NSDI) in San Diego where she provides a wide range of services, including supervision, needs assessment, dialog with the community and with decision makers, and direct service.
read moreDr. Gold will receive the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles President’s Award for the Service Unit at the upcoming Annual Girl Scouts Volunteer Ceremony on April 13th for her work to make Santa Monica Girl Scouts exceptional.
read moreSoula SAAD is a writer, producer, and director whose images and music transcend borders. Since 2010 Soula has been developing a series of films on the feminine voice of the planet.
read moreYasmin Kadir is the executive assistant and Program Coordinator for Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), where she has coordinated and implemented national and local programs. Yasmin is also a 2018-2019 NewGround Change-maker Fellow.
read moreStefania Magidson is the founder and president of Blue Heron Foundation, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the Romanian diaspora. Romanian-born, she has lived in the United States since 1983.
read moreJoanne Manzella is a web developer, photographer, and graphic designer and a lifelong resident of Santa Monica, CA. Because of her...
read moreDr. Wen Chen is an activist for Chinese culture and human rights. She was born in China during the Great Cultural Revolution and eventually won a national prize at a science competition when she was 16. She came to the U.S. for graduate school and received a doctorate degree in Biology
read moreStephanie LaMotta is the founder of Death Row Dogs Rescue. In addition to dogs, Stephanie has rescued cats, fish, birds, pigs, horses, goats, sheep, and chickens. Over the past 31 years, she has rescued about 3000 animals.
read moreMonalisa Okojie is the founder and president of Upward African Woman (UAW) to help eliminate the poverty, illiteracy, and hopelessness confronting women and children in Africa and within our own city of Los Angeles.
read moreJackie Behling is the founder and executive director of Global One Development Center. She had become aware of the problem of...
read moreSheila Laffey, Ph.D. is an award-winning producer/director of documentaries and short dramatic films and Adjunct Professor of Film...
read moreCameron Gharabikiou is the co-founder of Justice Law Group and current candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California. Cameron and...
read moreCarol Rosenstein is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of MusicMendsMinds, Inc. Carol and her husband, Irwin, founded...
read moreLila Silvern, pictured with her sons Drew and Eric, is the founder of the Drew Silvern affiliate, a non-profit chapter of Scholarship...
read moreJuliet Béynon serves as project director for K9 connection, a nonprofit program that re-shapes the lives of teens in at-risk...
read moreJay S, Grossman, DDS is the Founder and CEO of Homeless Not Toothless, a 501C(3) non profit program providing free dental care to the...
read moreAmeeta is an artist living and working in Venice, CA. Born to Indian parents in Nairobi, Kenya, she studied art in London. She has...
read moreJack Nordhaus, PhD has been a volunteer with Perfect Pet Rescue (www.perfectpetrescue.com), a West Los Angeles-based dog adoption...
read moreJanine Jordan is the founder of Green Wave, a non-profit in Costa Rica. In her own words: My name is Janine Jordan. I am an artivist...
read moreAziza Hasan, M.A. is Executive Director of NewGround: Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change. Aziza has been part of the NewGround team...
read moreMary Wright’s ethereal art has always been inspired by nature. Mary is guided by the interrelation between the four elements – air,...
read moreRonda Spinak, pictured on the left with Salma Hayek and JWT’s PR consultant, Maureen Rubin, is producer and artistic director of...
read moreI was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1994. I then thought my life was over, but it has carried on quite happily. After...
read moreMollie Hogan is the founder and president of Nature of Wildworks. She started out as a professional singer, but switched careers...
read moreDavid Sonnenschein’s passions of art, science and communication guide the mission of his company iQsonics. A neuroscientist,...
read moreSandra Beckwith is the author of two ebook series teaching civility and ethics to kids: Master Keys for Kids and A Manner for All...
read moreMary Ann Webster is a veteran Sierra Club member and environmental activist who has served over 20 years as Chair for the Santa...
read moreSita Lozoff is the co-director of the Human Kindness Foundation (HKF), a project she founded with her late husband Bo Lozoff more...
read moreDr. Nina Smart was born in communist Romania and spent her teenage years in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Following her own harrowing...
read moreDanielle Levy’s life goal is to contribute toward the creation of unity among all people. To do this, she uses a framework of higher...
read moreBea Ammidown was born in New York, educated in Paris and Switzerland, and has had careers as an editor for Life Magazine and Harper’s...
read moreShane Johnson is 15 years old. For the last three years he has been working with an organization that finds adoptive homes for dogs,...
read moreAnne de la Bouillerie (known as Annie Goeke) has been a noted leader in the Greens and Peace movement worldwide for over a decade...
read moreDorothy Reik is founder and President of Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, and owner of a daily listserve which is...
read moreHaving developed her own second career after she retired, Lee Gale Gruen has become an expert on helping seniors find fulfillment in...
read moreOur first featured reader is Roya Adjory. I met her when I finished chemotherapy and was desperately looking for a hair salon free...
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