ARCHIVES: FEATURED INTERVIEWS: 2017
Photo credit: Jordan Sabolick
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Blythe Hill (December 2017 Featured Interview) is CEO and founder of the Dressember Foundation, a non-profit organization which raises awareness and holds an annual worldwide campaign to aid in the fight against human sex trafficking. Dressember is a grantmaking foundation which collaborates with other organizations to educate the public and to help rescued victims reclaim their lives. The organization has raised over three million dollars since 2013.
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Barbara Slaine (right) & Sue Broudy (left) (November 2017 Featured Interview): Barbara founded the Liphe Balance Center to present health and wellness workshops to the community. Her mission at the center includes offering spiritual guidance and sharing cultural traditions and customs, varied therapies (such as Reiki) as well as to provide safe space for enlightened conversations about death and end-of-life transition. Her website, Conscious Dying Matters (CDM), provides resources to help individuals and families navigate through meaningful end-of-life transitions. Sue Broudy is an end-of-life doula, Reiki master and singer-songwriter. She is musical director for Conscious Dying Matters (CDM).
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Virginia Franklin Campbell (October 2017 Featured Interview) is the current national president of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW). She has been a proud member for twenty years. The NLAPW is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1897. The mission of the league is to encourage, recognize, and promote the production of creative work of professional standard in the arts, letters, and music, and, through outreach activities, provide educational, creative and professional support to members and non-members in these disciplines. Many well-known women who have been members or are current members of the NLAPW include Pearl S. Buck, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelo, and Hillary Clinton, to name a few.
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Jeanne Demers (September 2017 Featured Interview) is the founder of Realize Arts & Education, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to utilizing the arts to enhance education. She worked with several school districts in New York to facilitate programs and courses that would enable students to realize their gifts and use their creativity to learn story-telling techniques, goal-setting, collaborative writing skills, how to nurture a positive self-esteem, and how to learn from mistakes. Jeanne created The Ruby Books series, which empowers girls to find their unique voice and special goals. She is also co-author and illustrator of FLAWD: How To Stop Hating On Yourself, Others and the Things That Make You Who You Are (TarcherPerigee).
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Rachel Kelly (July 2017 Featured Interview) is an international bestselling author and well-known advocate for the mental health industry. Rachel speaks publicly about her journey with severe depression and her road to recovery to help educate her local and global community. She is vice president of United Response and an official ambassador for Rethink Mental Illness, Young Minds, SANE and The Counselling Foundation. Her memoir Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me – My Journey Through Depression (UK: Hodder & Stoughton, New York, London: Quercus) was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2014, and her second book on well-being, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness (Short Books Ltd.), became an international bestseller.
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DeLores Pressley (June 2017 Featured Interview) is an international keynote motivational speaker, author, and CEO of DeLores Pressley Worldwide. DeLores is the author of several books, including Clean Out the Closets of Your Life which is excerpted in this issue. She is the founder of She Elevates, a not-for-profit organization that provides young girls with mentorship and educational information about entrepreneurship. She is also the spokesperson for Humanitarian Hands Charities. DeLores is the recipient of many business and community service awards, including The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award presented to her by President Obama.
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Christina Hibbert, Psy.D. (May 2017 Featured Interview) is a clinical psychologist, founder and host of Motherhood Radio/TV, award-winning author and mother of six. She is also the founder and president of the Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition (part of Postpartum Support International), which offers support for moms and families who seek resource information concerning women who are at risk of or are experiencing distress, anxiety, trauma, and other difficulties during pregnancy or postpartum.
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Marta Wilson, Ph.D. (April 2017 Featured Interview) is an industrial-organizational psychologist and the CEO of Transformation Systems Inc. (TSI). Marta is also a dedicated philanthropist. To give back to the community, Marta created and steers TSI's award-winning Feed to Lead Program, which provides funding and critical volunteer hours to select charities. She is also Board Chairman of Easter Seals serving DC|MD|VA and a member of the American Red Cross Tiffany Circle. She has received numerous awards for her charitable efforts.
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Leslie Erway Wright (March 2017 Featured Interview) is the UN Committee Chair for Zonta International. She coordinates the organization's volunteer teams active with UN Headquarters in New York, UN offices in Geneva and Vienna, and Unesco in Paris. Leslie advises the Advocacy Chair and International President about activities that Zonta International should engage in. Before assuming this position, Leslie was a representative of the UN for the World Association for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women as well as other leadership roles in the UN.
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Diane Fried (left) and Kathy Coe (February 2017 Featured Interview) share art journaling with their communities. Diane earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA and has been a teacher and choreographer for the past 25 years. She is presently volunteering as the movement instructor at New Beginnings Family Academy which is a charter school in Bridgeport, CT. In addition to her dance pursuits, she has lead art journaling workshops for local charities, libraries, and senior living facilities.
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Kathy Coe (left) and Diane Fried (February 2017 Featured Interview) share art journaling with their communities. Kathy studied at DuCret School of Art in New Jersey, Pratt Institute and The National Academy of Fine Art and Design in New York, where she worked closely with Dr. Furman Finck, Ronald Sherr, Harvey Dinnerstein and Marybeth Mckenzie. She challenges the traditions of classical portraiture with a unique ability to portray her subjects’ personalities. Her work has captured the eyes of many collectors, including Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder and Charles, Prince of Wales.
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Deborah Gilboa, M.D. (a.k.a. Dr. G) (January '17 Featured Interview) is a respected parenting expert, author, speaker and founder of AskDrG.com. Deborah is a board certified, attending family physician at Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Health Center. She is also the author of Get the Behavior You Want, Without Being the Parent You Hate! (Demos Health, 2014). Deborah is fluent in American Sign Language and has lectured nationally on improving health care for deaf and hearing impaired patients. She worked to extend health care education and access to Pittsburgh’s deaf community. Her work with the deaf community has received national recognition and was the focus of her service as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.
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