Sentences with phrase «become leading voices»

Many Worldchanging writers have become leading voices in important planetary conversations.

These grants are designed to advance the capacity of our partner organizations across Tennessee to become leading voices in education advocacy efforts, especially on behalf of communities and students of color.

These grants are designed to advance the capacity of partner organizations across the state to become leading voices in education advocacy efforts, especially on behalf of communities and students of color.

North upped the ante even further on May 9, in an interview with the Washington Times, claiming that the young survivors of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — many of whom have since become leading voices in the gun control debate — and others like them were «civil terrorists.»

Travis has become a leading voice in the marketing technology area.

«Indra Nooyi has become a leading voice among Fortune 500 CEOs in no small part because of her willingness to take a stand on the broader purpose of the corporation, while delivering top - echelon performance,» he said in a statement.

Over the past couple decades, Turkle has become a leading voice in the ways technology has been tearing at our social fabric.

He has grown from working next to some of the best names in the industry to becoming a leading voice in the culinary world.

My hope was that the church would become a leading voice for economic and racial justice as well as for disarmament.

Through the years, Silver became a leading voice for liberal causes, fighting for more school aid, prekindergarten expansion, a «millionaires» tax» on high earners and rollback of Rockefeller - era drug laws.

As a coalition of labor unions, community organizations and grassroots activists, the Working Families Party has been a consistent voice on issues that put working families first, and it has become a leading voice in the fight for real democracy.

Kellner, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant and underwent many operations and years of physical therapy, has become a leading voice in New York on disability issues.

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.

As an educator and activist, Brian has become a leading voice in discussions about public education.

She's become the leading voice of thyroid health in the burgeoning Evolutionary Health Movement (also referred to as Paleo, Primal, or Ancestral Health).

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, founded in 2005, became a leading voice for charter schools nationally.

Journalist Nikole Hannah Jones has become a leading voice in the conversation about schools and equality.

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.

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.

We've kept our two - part guiding vision ever since, and so in all our work, we strive to help as many pets as we can and to become a leading voice in the veterinary industry.

«Randy has utilized his position as a respected business leader in the boating and fishing industries to become a leading voice for conservation and stewardship of marine resources,» said David Wilmot, Ph.D., Ocean Champions President and Co-Founder.

According to Fearnley - Whittingstall, eating puppy meat is really no different than eating pork.Fearnley - Whittingstall, who stars in the British cooking program River Cottage, has become a leading voice for the organic movement in the UK, challenging his viewers to adopt a more intimate understanding of where their food comes from.

Since its launch in 2016, HPC has moved quickly to become the leading voice of the next decade in legal services.

He is the president and CEO of that organization and he's become a leading voice for a network of gun victim survivors and the faith community all seeking to promote what they call saner gun laws in America.

As MLAC moves into the next phase of its evolution, there is an enormous opportunity to become the leading voice for civil legal services in the Commonwealth.

The National Rifle Association «wants more people just like this, with that exact firearm, to scare more people and sell more guns,» said David Hogg, who has become a leading voice in the student movement to restrict assault weapons.

EFF empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals through our Action Center and has become a leading voice in online rights debates.

In a relatively short amount of time, Tim has become a leading voice in the job search and personal marketing space.

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.

Our goal is to become a leading voice within the early childhood community, advocating for the value and survival of laboratory schools nationwide.

Not exact matches

He became a prominent national leader for African Americans and a leading voice for former slaves and their descendants.

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada is the leading and only nationally organized non-profit working with over 1300 social and investment stakeholders across the country, and the national voice of an industry that is fast becoming an integral part of the start - up financing ecosystem.

In the early 1960s, Podhoretz was moving Commentary sharply to the left; a decade later he was turning it into the leading voice of what would become the neoconservatism that helped prepare the way for the Reagan Revolution.

Pastors responsibilities are to lead their congregations to pray (continually) for their leaders and not become political voices from their pulpits.

An active member of the NYSRA automatically becomes a member of the National Restaurant Association (NRA) which is the leading business association for the U.S. restaurant industry and your «voice» in Washington, D.C..

The voice of the disgruntled, led by high - profile fans like Piers Morgan had started gaining traction by 2008, and for rivals, Arsenal became a punchline.

Continuing the mission to bring leading voices concerned about online safety together, the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today announced that the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) has become the newest member to join the organization.

Since stepping down as Labour leader in 2015, Miliband has become one of parliament's leading voices on climate change — and his stock appears to be soaring.

That Gillibrand would become the Senate's leading voice on gender discrimination and sexual violence — that she would be a second - term senator at all — seemed unlikely when she was first named to Hillary Clinton's seat.

UKIP - the United Kingdom Independence Party - is led by Nigel Farage who has become the modernising voice within his Eurosceptic party.

You can certainly expect him to be a leading voice for the party next week when one of the Miliband brothers becomes the new Labour leader.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

He then went on to become the Midwest's leading voice in Ashtanga / Vinyasa Yoga and a true pioneer for the shift in the Vinyasa culture nationally.

At its core, the story is about recognizing the value of a person, despite their size, as Horton, an enormous elephant, becomes aware of a voice coming from a small speck of matter, and comes to learn there's an entire city of Whos on that speck, led by the Mayor, who's never had much to do, as nothing bad has ever happened.

Despite the title, the lead character is, in fact, Miguel (terrifically voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez), a 12 - year - old resident of the town of Santa Cecilia who dreams of becoming a famous musician just like his idol, the late, great Ernesto de la Cruz (played with pitch - perfect grandiosity by Benjamin Bratt).

When the Trolls filmmakers managed to get Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake to voice the lead characters Poppy and Branch in what would become a riotous musical comedy, cleverly titled Trolls.

Joining Bruce Wayne / Batman as headliners are butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes — a perfect voice casting choice), a young orphan who eventually becomes sidekick Robin (voiced by Michael Cera), Gotham City's new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson), and, leading a crew of villains that includes just about every bad guy and gal in the DC Universe, The Joker.

There's no denying that Mike is a talented actor, but his unconventional methods lead to a clash of egos between him and Riggan, and with only days to go until opening night, the whole production becomes in danger of shutting down before it even begins — especially if the cynical and malicious voice in Riggan's head (a manifestation of his Birdman alter ego) has anything to say about it.

June 26, 2014 • U.S. Sen. Tim Scott has become a leading conservative voice focused on building wealth among people of color.

As the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), she led the organization to become one of the nation's strongest voices for children and families.