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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. That is really where the origins of the work came out of.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." I've worked in the corporate world, I've worked in the political world, I've worked in teaching when I was in grad school. But you know, it teaches you a lot.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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She goes through an intensive training program in an educational track, that teaches her about her rights as a woman in health, economy, society, and politics, among other things. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. When we met her, Honorata was homeless.

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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

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In other firsts, he approved an agreement with China over bishop nominations that had vexed the Vatican for decades, met the Russian patriarch, and charted new relations with the Muslim world by visiting the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq. Francis sought out the unemployed, the sick, the disabled and the homeless.