December 2009
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3 Common Myths in Managing Social Justice Groups
Ann Caton, partner at Potomac Group and Adriann Barboa, of Young Women United, teamed up to present “The Dream and the Drama: Ups and Downs of Alternative Organizational Structures” at the Sister Song conference here in DC.
This workshop created an all too rare space for 20 women from various organizations around the country to talk about the dynamics taking place inside of their...
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Female Genital Mutilation: Community-based change...
A friend of mine, Radha Patel, sent me an email this week about a consulting project she’s doing with the UN and an online symposium where she posed a question about the connection between female genital mutilation (FGM) and culture. The following are some of my thoughts that I shared with her on how a local community can use a culturally-based or community-based change approach to stop the...