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Book Giveaway For Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World
I partnered with Flatiron Books to launch Moment of Lift Books, a platform dedicated to publishing original nonfiction by visionaries working to unlock a more equal world for women and girls.
We have a fantastic lineup of authors â€� David Moinina Sengeh, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Joanne N. Smith, and Jina Krause-Vilmar â€� and today, I'm excited to share an opportunity to win an advanced reader copy of David's Read more of this blog post »
We have a fantastic lineup of authors â€� David Moinina Sengeh, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Joanne N. Smith, and Jina Krause-Vilmar â€� and today, I'm excited to share an opportunity to win an advanced reader copy of David's Read more of this blog post »
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Olympic medalist and two-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson’s first book is a love letter to Black girls—a testament to their histories, a tribute to their triumphs, and a celebration of their potential. Although the essays in Dear Black Girls deal with serio ...more |
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Radical Inclusion is a book by the brilliant David Moinina Sengeh who, as Sierra Leone’s minister of education, led a controversial and courageous effort to end a policy that banned pregnant girls from going to school. David’s story takes us all over ...more |
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"How can AI, above all else, respect human dignity?� That’s the question Dr. Fei-Fei Li asked her students at Stanford and one she challenges us to consider in her powerful memoir, The Worlds I See. Dr. Li is a renowned computer scientist who played ...more |
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“Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we're afraid of.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“As women gain rights, families flourish, and so do societies. That connection is built on a simple truth: Whenever you include a group that's been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you're working globally to include women and girls, who are half of every population, you're working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equity lifts everyone. Women's rights and society's health and wealth rise together.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
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Voting for our October Non-fiction selection ~~
Time to select our Oct thru Dec Non-fiction book, Ladies! Altho we did not get 10 nominations, I think that the 8 nominations we did get are all very good book selections. So, are we ready to vote?? Let's do it!
The poll will stay open until September 25th.
Time to select our Oct thru Dec Non-fiction book, Ladies! Altho we did not get 10 nominations, I think that the 8 nominations we did get are all very good book selections. So, are we ready to vote?? Let's do it!
The poll will stay open until September 25th.
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| Book Nook Cafe: Quotes ~~~ 2019 | 251 | 51 | Dec 23, 2019 08:04PM | |
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