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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

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National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. The train stops for no one. But who has time to tell stories? In fact, the latest numbers given by the U.S. Incredible.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. From there, I moved into the position of National Outreach Coordinator.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director.