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Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth.
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December 22nd, 2012

Ms. Alleyne currently serves as the Assistant Program Scientist for the International Space Station (ISS) at NASA- Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. There she is responsible for managing the communication strategy for ISS Research and Technology that conveys the benefits of ISS scientific research to stakeholders, the public and potential users. She also leads the integration of all international education programs across the ISS Partners (US, Japan, Russia, Europe and Canada). Prior to this, Ms. Alleyne has Read the rest of this entry �
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November 2nd, 2012
Fiza Shah is the Founder and CEO of Developments in Literacy (DIL), a non-profit organization based in Irvine, California. DIL is dedicated to educating and empowering underprivileged students especially girls, by operating student-centered model schools; and provides high quality professional development to teachers and principals across Pakistan. While DIL currently Read the rest of this entry �
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October 30th, 2012

LaborVoices, Inc. is an innovative St. Louis-based company that offers real-time, workforce intelligence and supply chain monitoring tools to corporate clients. Utilizing innovative crowd-sourced monitoring tools around the globe, LaborVoices enables companies to have constant updates on the health of their supply chains before products have even shipped. Such intelligence helps companies maintain Read the rest of this entry �
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October 15th, 2012

Trade of Innocents – Justice Needs A Hero.
Bill and Laurie Bolthouse have been passionately pursuing health care and justice issues for the past few years in such diverse places as Macedonia,Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe andIndia. This recent foray into Read the rest of this entry �
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September 28th, 2012

As President of Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership (DCGEP), Aric Noboa leads the development and implementation of the organization’s strategic goals and objectives, and ensures it fulfills its mission to use the power of media to transform education and improve lives in the developing world. In June 2007, Noboa was invited to join 26 leaders in the field for the St. George’s House, Windsor Castle Leadership Initiative on HIV/AIDS. The gathering is designed to develop leadership and ideas in prevention in Africa and Europe. Read the rest of this entry �
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Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth.
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Yakker’s corner joins the UN in remembering Dag Hammarskjöld
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