Melissa is dedicated to happiness as a daily lifestyle. She founded The Fresh 20 with the understanding that the path to health and happiness runs through the kitchen. Her healthful menu plans help thousands of people across Northern America every week to get wholesome food on their tables. Melissa is also a lifestyle coach focusing …
For 18 years Centro de los Derechos del Migrantes, Inc. has been working for and advocating for justice for migrant workers. Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, …
Elena Christopoulos is a Climate Scientist selling vintage clothing “and fabulous things.” She is also a public speaker, writer, Sustainability Consultant . In 2000 Elena founded Christopoulos Management Consulting (ECMC). Elena is a Certified Sustainability Practitioner who has managed more than 40 environmental and political campaigns worldwide. Through ECMC she has created over 500,000 green …
Shama Hyder is Founder of The Marketing Zen Group, a full service digital marketing firm. When she was only 24 she was named as one of Business Week’s “America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs.” May 2012 Business Insider named her one of the “20 Young Professionals to Watch in 2012.” She has been honored at both the …
According to the GirlTREK website the organization is “the largest health movement and nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the United States.” Founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon met in Los Angeles as college students in 1996. They say they bonded over 2PAC, Nikki Giovanni and their mutual inability to say no …
Leigh Adams is a former children’s librarian and outdoor education teacher who is passionate about providing learners of all ages the opportunity to explore and acquire new skills. She disseminates her creativity through instruction, demonstration and implementation of an array of hands-on fine arts crafts and environmentally sustainable gardening and landscaping projects. Leigh is a …
Modest Needs is a small but ambitious nonprofit, founded in 2002. It has a three-fold mission; ·Provide responsible effective short-term financial assistance to families and individuals in temporary crisis Lessen the burden on state and federal agencies to care for the truly indigent by stopping at-risk households from slipping into a cycle of poverty Promote compassion …
My friend Damona Hoffman is a brightly shining star. And, as are all of the women I will be featuring over the next everal weeks in my “Women In The Spotlight” post series, an example of someone not defined or guided by the status quo. Like the others I am featuring she is someone who has …
That’s right, Helsinki Finland. According to Mat Trewern of BBC Radio Manchester, the city has used a groundbreaking program to virtually eradicate homelessness. According to the newscaster one thing that stands out as unusual at Helsinki’s central train station on a bitter cold night is that are no homeless sleeping…. And no one begging. And …
Roslyn Young-Daniels is Founder and Director of The Daniels Network, LLC, a marketing solutions and strategic insight consultancy serving the pharmaceutical and health care sectors. She is also President and Founder of, Black Health Matters (BHM) launched in 2003 and the BHM website, a video centric educational network that provides health care professionals and consumers …
