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Otherizing

Otherizing

It troubles me that so many posters and campaigns about sex trafficking in the US depict a slender white girl with long, straight, blonde hair.  The reality is that 77%...

Otherizing

It troubles me that so many posters and campaigns about sex trafficking in the US depict a slender white girl with long, straight, blonde hair.  The reality is that 77%...

How Not to Portray Trafficking

How Not to Portray Trafficking

Each year, we host an art show of photography created in the Vision for Empowerment workshop series, which we have offered to women in Calcutta for the past 4 years....

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How Not to Portray Trafficking

Each year, we host an art show of photography created in the Vision for Empowerment workshop series, which we have offered to women in Calcutta for the past 4 years....

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Why Did You Not Come Sooner?

Why Did You Not Come Sooner?

Next week I will be speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis, alongside 2014 Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who has helped over free over 60,000 children from slavery.   Many...

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Why Did You Not Come Sooner?

Next week I will be speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis, alongside 2014 Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who has helped over free over 60,000 children from slavery.   Many...

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Learning to Trust

Learning to Trust

Fifteen of us sat in a circle on the cool marble floor, drawing birds and flowers.  The girls ranged in age from Jasminda, a tiny seven-year-old with uncanny artistic abilities,...

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Learning to Trust

Fifteen of us sat in a circle on the cool marble floor, drawing birds and flowers.  The girls ranged in age from Jasminda, a tiny seven-year-old with uncanny artistic abilities,...

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Introducing the First Vet Nursing Trainees!

This week a group of four bright, young women traveled to our training partners Animal Aid Unlimited in Udaipur for a week of orientation before starting the first official Her...

Introducing the First Vet Nursing Trainees!

This week a group of four bright, young women traveled to our training partners Animal Aid Unlimited in Udaipur for a week of orientation before starting the first official Her...

A New Perspective on Walls

A New Perspective on Walls

There is a lot of talk about walls in the press these days...    We all know about walls, but just to offer a different perspective, let me walk you through the...

A New Perspective on Walls

There is a lot of talk about walls in the press these days...    We all know about walls, but just to offer a different perspective, let me walk you through the...