Sentences with phrase «become leading advocates»

These students graduate with a remarkable sense of altruism and become leading advocates for animal welfare across the country.

He became a leading advocate for competition in Canada.

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safety.

ALBANY — Court of Appeals chief judge Jonathan Lippman has become the leading advocate for a proposal to increase the mandatory retirement age for many judges to 80, an extraordinary level of involvement for someone in his position.

The Collaborative for Student Success became a leading advocate for college - and career - ready standards in US schools, and continues to support state reform efforts today.

[9] The Center for Public Integrity also reports that «much of the governors coalition work has been carried out by HBW Resources and CEA, a group that's channeled millions in corporate funding to become a leading advocate at the state level for drilling.»

She has become a leading advocate in addressing climate change and the health of our oceans.

Through legal victories and setbacks, Planned Parenthood continued to grow into its role as a trusted sexual and reproductive health care provider and educator, establishing affiliates in communities across the country, and becoming a leading advocate in the fight for reproductive rights.

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Bloomberg has also become arguably the nation's leading gun - control advocate, spending millions of his own fortune to finance candidates and groups that call for the restriction of firearms.

Once these leads find their way to your site, your content keeps them coming back for more, and they become long - term customers and brand advocates.

This thinking has led me to become a huge advocate of supporting the local arts.

Led by Albert Straus, his company Straus Family Creamery became an organic farming advocate and dairy innovator more than 20 years ago when it became the first 100 percent certified organic creamery in the country.

In their book On Becoming Baby Wise, they advise against feeding babies on demand around the clock and instead advocate a parent - led feeding, wake, and sleep schedule.

In fact, purées only became the norm at a time when doctors were advocating introducing solids at 4 months (which we now know is too early for proper digestion and can lead to allergies).

The teacher who is passing out rice krispy treats today may become a leading health advocate next year.

She urged the audience to become advocates and publicize the importance of prekindergarten, saying that early literacy leads to later academic success.

The now ex-AG, once positioned to become governor should Cuomo move up or out, was considered one of the state's leading advocates of women's rights.

Advocates argued the new arrangement will lead to as many as 100,000 apartments becoming deregulated.

Still, some council members chafed at her role: The councilwoman who led the fight against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to build a West Side Stadium in 2005, one argued, had suddenly become the most visible advocate for a new Manhattan arena.

Public Advocate Letitia James today became the latest leading Democrat to endorse Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — spurning Alice Cancel, the candidate running on the Democratic line in the April 19 special election.

As a state senator, Espaillat worked to sustain affordable housing, and went on to become a leading voice for advocate for workers» rights and immigration services, said spokesman Jake Potent.

Scott Stringer has led 16 town hall - style events since becoming Comptroller; Letitia James, the Public Advocate, hosted her 28th on Wednesday night in Brooklyn.

Since 2012, he led NASA's science division, where he became an advocate for marrying the agency's human and robotic exploration divisions.

She has quickly become one of its leading experts, educators and advocates.

Cycling has also become an integral part of many rehabilitation programs worldwide, with leading health and exercise professionals advocating its numerous recuperative benefits owing to its low - impact nature.

PRESS RELEASE — June 11 — AdultFriendFinder.com has become a platinum sponsor of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP), a leading child protection organization and is launching a program in which it will provide $ 10,000 in matching grants to any other websites or individuals that wish to contribute to ASACP.

Summit also has an internal mentorship program, which consists of weekly ten - minute, student - led, one - on - one meetings with an assigned teacher who becomes a student's academic coach, college counselor, family liaison, and advocate.

People often ask George Pawlas how he became such an advocate for establishing school - community relations plans at the schools he led.

Since winning a Minnesota Senate seat in 1992, the teacher - turned - legislator has become a prominent advocate for equitable school funding and a leading voice for improving public schools.

All faculty and staff became advocates in the pursuit of equity and excellence, designed lessons with a purpose, and articulated an urgency to address critical issues that lead to the successful outcomes outlined in the campus improvement plan.

She brought her passion for working with young children to become a national advocate and served as Executive Director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce where she led efforts to improve the quality of working conditions for educators in early learning settings.

Holt's insistence that genuine learning is generated from the person's own experience led him to question the existence of all school environments, even the free schools, as being artificially separated from the real world; eventually, he became a pioneering advocate of unstructured family - based learning, which he called «unschooling.»

Led by Gov. Wise since 2005, the Alliance has become a respected advocate for the Common Core State Standards, deeper learning, digital learning, adolescent literacy, and other key education policy issues.

Jennifer Jacobsen is a parent, education advocate and has become a leading voice in the effort to educate parents about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test and the unprecedented effort by the government and corporate education reform industry to collect data about our children.

[17] Toyota advocated that its Camry be manufactured at a Ford factory and sold through the sales channels of both brands, but Ford deemed Camry to be in competition with a model it was developing, which became the Ford Tempo, leading to an impasse and then the cessation of negotiations in July 1981.

Become an advocate for school libraries lead by certified school librarians.

In my case self publishing also led me to found Publetariat and the sister sites you mentioned, also to become an advocate and to some extent an activist in the self publishing and indie author movement so it's really changed my life in some major ways.

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

Cat Haven's mission is to lead Baton Rouge in becoming a «no - kill community» for cats and kittens by providing care, shelter, and adoption services as well as advocating routine spaying and neutering for population control.

While with the Topeka - based company, Dr Mara became the leading voice in advocating the importance of clinical nutrition to both the veterinary academic community and his practitioner colleagues.

About BETTER CITIES FOR PETS ™ BETTER CITIES FOR PETS ™ is a program of Mars Petcare US, the world's leading pet nutrition and health care business, created to help communities become more pet - friendly by bringing the voice of pets and their owners to places of influence and advocating for fewer pets in shelters, more pet - friendly places, and happier, healthier lives for both people and pets.

With tens of millions of units sold and billions of dollars generated, Call of Duty has led game advocates to point out just how big and mainstream interactive entertainment has become.

In his short life, though, Emanuel, who led the Belgian arm of the F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG chemicals company, had become a powerful advocate for art of the present moment, serving as president of the Basel Kunstverein and collecting art with his wife.

Tillerson, under whose leadership ExxonMobil became an advocate of carbon taxes, led the pro-Paris climate treaty faction within the Trump administration.

She is a leading advocate and driver of e-discovery technology, and has since moved to become a professor of computer science, while continuing to practice law with her own practice Maura Grossman Law in New York (USA).

For Blauer and other advocates, open data became a basis for engagement and public sector transparency, leading to improved access to justice for some of society's most vulnerable communities.

G. Arthur Martin was Canada's greatest criminal advocate before he became a leading jurist with the Ontario Court of Appeal.

He became a Queen's Counsel in 1999, is a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University and, as the first Director of Training and Education in the Faculty of Advocates from 1994 to 2002, designed and led the Scottish Bar's award - winning advocacy skills programme.

My desire to advocate for the understanding of children's and youths» needs impacted by trauma led me to become a leading voice in the Fairfax County Public School System.

Louise started her career teaching math and quickly became a leading activist and advocate on peace and social justice issues including the rights of women, minorities, the economically disadvantaged and exceptional children.