Sentences with phrase «social activist living»

On September 9th 2013, Kehkashan Basu, a 13 year old environmental and social activist living in Dubai, visited GBM's headquarters in Nairobi to talk about her work and admiration on the Late Professor Wangari Maathai.

On September 9th 2013, Kehkashan Basu, a 13 year old environmental and social activist living in Dubai, visited GBM's headquarters in Nairobi to talk about her work and admiration on the Late Professor Wangari Maathai.

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You can describe Jordan Hewson in many ways — a social activist, a first - time tech entrepreneur, a 27 - year - old living in Brooklyn, New York.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

Shel has been a passionate activist for social change and environmental sustainability his entire life.

In 2016, the ACLU in California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activists.

Crouch's life reflects a different model of the relationship between Christianity and culture than the activist approach that tends to define Christian engagement in terms of its social impact.

It offers such metaphors of the Christian life as «ambassador for Christ» — a favorite of evangelicals — and «citizen of God's commonwealth,» a favorite of social activists.

The mountaintop experience, in the lives of great social activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., motivates them to descend from the mountain and work for the transformation of the world.

But the activists, such as the biblical prophets, claim that the life of social concern is thoroughly religious, and they make «doing justice» the very heart of any authentic religious relation to the sacred mystery of God.

Social activist Geoffrey Canada, who is among that number, is creating a new education project that goes beyond schools, and tries to better children's lives in the community.

«This is a life - changing book,» Wentworth says of Tough's look at the work of social activist and educator Geoffrey Canada, who created the Harlem Children's Zone, a cradle - to - college, community - based organization.

Many individual activists find that blogs and social network profiles are more than enough, while a straightforward CMS can make a campaign or organization site into a live and editable communications tool for non-technical staff.

The micro-blogging tool / social network Twitter was the most prominent tool used at first, along with live - streaming video, though some of the activists involved have just created a site where you can learn more about what's up (quick work, guys).

The march concluded an all - day celebration of the slain activist hero's life at the National Action Network, where Cuomo accepted a «social - justice award» for his executive order requiring the attorney general to investigate civilian deaths at the hands of cops.

As well as using standard social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, political activists make use of live audio and video streaming sites, including Audioboo and Bambuser, to keep the world up to date with news from the front line.

The researchers found that many of the activists had experienced stress early in life from poor family attachments or other social problems.

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Living passionately despite ominous ill health is a theme of this social - history drama about a group of Aids activists in early - 1990s Paris, and the film's director, Robin Campillo, accordingly fills every scene with vitality.

THE AGRONOMIST (Grade: B +): Jonathan Demme's portrait of Jean Dominique, the Haitian radio broadcaster and human - rights activist who defied the despots and military juntas of his homeland, is also a vivid portrait of Haiti's political and social life in the last half - century.

Several actresses, including Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams and Emma Watson, brought social activists with them, to focus on real - life solutions to gritty problems far from Hollywood.

The poet and social activist, Thomas Merton, summed up the work - life balance perfectly when he said: «happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony».

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei Through August 20, 2017 New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei explores the life and career of pioneering actor, activist, and social media icon George Takei.

But it is also thanks to social activists such as Odede and Posner that small steps are being taken to make Kibera a better place to live.

They encounter gangsters and guns, strawberries and more strawberries, factory - farms and fishermen, eco-warriors living in trees and social activists, and even, briefly, Mr Mayevskyj (from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian), along they way they are cheated and defeated; but those who emerge at the end do so a little wiser; as does the reader.

Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon's own journey - on his brand - new BMX bike - will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen's cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as «The Zebra»; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists.

The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman joins other exhibitions at the Broad MSU examining work by living artists from the U.S. and around the globe who are addressing a range of social and political issues through their practice — including recent exhibitions of South Asian artists Naiza Khan, Imran Qureshi, and Mithu Sen.

Manuel de Falla / Stokely Carmichael brings together the score of a 1904 opera — La vida breve (Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

(Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

On social media, #mfaNOW and live streaming onsite encourage followers to share their experiences and get the word out about what's happening in real time NOW — from film and food to talks with artists, activists and change makers.»

To be eligible, artists need 20 or more years investment in their practice, live in Houston or an adjacent county, and meet specific criteria such as contributing to the community as an educator and / or social activist, having maintained long term affiliations with an arts organization, and more.

Co-founded last year by artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton, and social activist Allan DiCastro, Art + Practice (A+P) «encourages education and culture by providing life - skills training for foster youth in the 90008 ZIP code as well as free, museum - curated art exhibitions and moderated art lectures to the community of Leimert Park.»

The Stockyard Institute was influenced by an awareness of neighborhood histories and an under recognized group of community artists, architects, radical teachers, and local activists where a deep consideration of the social and civic forms of engagement were as critical to their practice as to their lives.

She is a writer, social justice facilitator, healer, doula and pleasure activist living in Detroit.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and worked at the intersections of avant - garde art worlds, radical political movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as photography, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

[72] Since climate change has been recognized as a global problem with grave environmental, social, economic, distributional, and political implications, [73] activists and the body politic have now firmly put climate science in the position of having to support policies to protect the threatened planet and the human, animal, and plant life on it.

Mentions Last Episode Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) Share the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study / Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media + BONUS: Social Media Supplement — Jerry's Adventures in Social Media

With political and social strife at the highest they've been in generations, several movement lawyers from the 1960s and»70s believe they can use their life experience to educate and inspire today's social activist lawyers and demonstrators.

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-- Founding and managing substance abuse centers for 20 years (1997 - present)-- Founding and managing HIV counseling and testing center, Hayat, in Giza Egypt (2009 - present)-- Seven years consultant in UNDP HIV / AIDS Program in The Arab States (HARPAS) including conducting training workshops and research activities in middle east and African Horn countries (2005 - 2012)-- One year experience with UNHCER in Syria (2011 - 2012)-- Two years consultant with COSV organization (Italian organization) working with Syrian refugees and Syrian civil activists in Lebanon and Turkey (2013 - 2014)-- Conducting training and supervision work with a group of psychologists and psychiatrists working with children and families living with HIV (UNICEFF Egypt 2016)-- Main consultant trainer with psychologists and social workers working with Gender Based Violence refugee children in Egypt (Terre Des Hmmes 2017)-- Three years weekly TV program on marriage and couple relations (2014 - present)-- Experience with three TV series by acting and writing (2015,2016,2017)-- Board member in the Association of Evolutionary Psychiatric and Group Work, and the Egyptian Association of Group Therapies and Processes