Sentences with phrase «as an activist»

The company has seen some drama surrounding its leadership in recent weeks as activist investors have pushed to change the makeup of the board of directors.

Consumers are paying attention as well as activists and citizens.

My experience with advancing disability rights is tied to my experience as an activist in the community.

This is as outrageous an act as I have ever witnessed imposed upon our community in 25 years as an activist.

His experience as an activist informs his work as an artist and as an educator.

He is primarily a value investor and has acted only a few times as an activist.

Investing in ethical and environmental causes is one of my commitments as a businessman who looks to the future as an activist.

Does the doula sound like she is ready to fight, take over your birth, force her philosophies and act as an activist in your delivery room?

«People may try to label certain candidates as activist or conservative, but I don't think those or other labels are helpful,» he says.

Rental affordability has come under close scrutiny in recent years, as activists point to strong rent growth in the apartment market.

This webinar puts the spotlight on the notion of early childhood practice being political, and on early years practitioners as activists and change agents.

We are preparing for the introduction of similar bans on the sale of all pets to increase as activists become more confident that they can use these methods to successfully decrease pet ownership nationwide.

Directors must insist on asking management to analyze strategic choices as an activist would: by looking at alternatives to the strategies the CEO is recommending.

The walk out was part of a growing movement by kids holding the government to task and speaking out as activists.

Besides having a long and impressive record as an activist in her community, she has a long history of involvement in disability organizations and advocacy.

But they face resistance from the town as an activist arrives to stop them.

As racial and socioeconomic divides take front and center in national conversations, what does it take to persist as an activist?

Hiring a long term disability lawyer as your activist could mean the differentiation in whether you ultimately collect disability benefits or not.

Seamans is new to the political scene, but has been working as an activist for Western New Yorkers for several years.

Nixon also touted her behind - the - scenes work as an activist pushing for legislation in private meetings with lawmakers.

Since its opening, nearly 10, 000 visitors have experienced Into Body Into Wall and, this June, Maria Gaspar was awarded an Artist as Activist Fellowship from the Rauschenberg Foundation to expand her engagement with people inside and outside the walls of the Cook County Jail.

Significant Productions (Dope), MNM Creative, MACRO and Cinereach are financing the film about «a black telemarketer with self - esteem issues» who «discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

«The Koch brothers donated $ 87,000 to Andrew Cuomo when he first ran in 2010 because they knew a good investment when they saw one,» the 51 - year - old said at the event, where she also touted her history as an activist on education, women's rights and LGBTQ rights.

A number of Democratic state senators as well as activists pushed legislation that would enshrine equal rights in New York's constitution for every person regardless of gender, sexual orientation or identity, physical or mental disability and more.

Khor, an economist trained at the University of Oxford, has spent much of his career as an activist fighting the policies of the Malaysian government, which sanctions the rapid destruction of the rainforests of Borneo by logging companies.

Sholette has a long and impressive history as an activist artist and scholar, extending back to his early groundbreaking work with PADD and Repo - History, as well as his work as a critic, theorist and historian of engaged art (as evidenced in his books Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture and the edited anthologies Collectivism after Modernism and The Interventionists).

As the activist art of a half - century ago, like the agitprop art before it, enters museum collections, a new generation is developing its own esthetic.

In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, for which he is the first artist in residence at the new National Museum of African American Culture.

To read the press release click here, or visit the Artist as Activist program page in our Grants section.

The advocates included actress Debra Winger, filmmaker Josh Fox and environmental leader Bill McKibben, as well as activists from communities across New York's Southern Tier.

Maria Urbina, national political director of the Indivisible Project, lauded Balter's health care advocacy and her work as an activist with the Central New York Solidarity Coalition.

As activists gathered at Don Dale detention centre calling for the release of boys who are still in detention after being subjected to alleged abuse at the hands of corrections staff, Liana Buchanan, Victoria's Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, and Andrew Jackomos, Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, warned that the issue goes far deeper than what happened within the detention centre.

Mark - Viverito previously penned a letter to the F.T.C. criticizing Herbalife, which came as activist investor Bill Ackman was organizing a public effort against the company.

Rick also has significant experience in representing both corporations as well as activist shareholders in proxy contests and governance disputes.

I speak as a Tory voter who crossed the floor from Labour in 2004 but am seriously considering changing back (if not as an activist then as a voter) because of David «Mr Fox» Cameron's disgusting show of hypocrisy in today's Sun regarding the BBC.

The exhibition presents a selection of her work from across nearly five decades, as well as the debut of a newly commissioned piece, Axis (2015), paired with ephemera surrounding Kasten's work in both fine art and commercial contexts, and her role as an activist for women photographers.

Gist: A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

Smaller firms are investable without dividends, seeing as activists can gain control of the company and potential suitors can more than afford to take them private to realize a business's full value.

I began this journey as an activist at 13 — and there's no reason we can not and should not inspire, educate and mobilize from the youngest of ages in every community, beginning today.

There are, however, many more investors that masquerade as activists for shareholders when they are really just looking to create short - term gains for themselves.

Anyone can start campaigning for their best romantic interests by getting involved in the Burlington community as an activist or volunteer.

Ultimately, I wrote the guidebook I wish I had found when I started my own journey as an activist, in college, and had no idea how to get started and really have a meaningful impact on the issues I cared about.

At the upcoming 2017 Creative Nonfiction Writers» Conference, Jamie will teach a craft - based session on «Memory & Memoir,» and will participate in the roundtable discussions «The Writer as Activist: Making Your Story Matter» and «Engaging Your Audience: Raising Your Profile & Self - Promotion.»