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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. With that in mind, World of Good has really launched a kind of retail strategy, looking a lot like Hallmark. So anyway, it is really exciting.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children." I raised a lot of money. I thought, "Great.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change?

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children.

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