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30 books everyone should read before turning 30
Happy Monday!
30 books everyone should read before turning 30. I may be biased because my book is on this list… Still, it’s a great list with many great books I’ve read and loved.
Girl Rising curriculum is now live !
Good Monday Y’all! So excited to share that the full free Girl Rising curriculum is now live on the site! Now you can bring all the wonderful girls to your campus or your classroom.
A Teaching Opportunity
Broaden horizons. Empower your students.
The message of Girl Rising has played to packed movie theaters, corporate boardrooms and political arenas worldwide. Now you can bring it to your campus or your classroom.
Forty years after genocide, Cambodia finds complicated truth hard to bear
Forty years after genocide, Cambodia finds complicated truth hard to bear
Questions of guilt and innocence run deep when confronting the Khmer Rouge horrors that left one in four people dead
2015 Cambodian Madison Dance World Guinness Record – Angkor Sangkran 2015 Madison Dance
Some days ya just gotta dance! Wish I was there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAKDEvaZpA
‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten,’ a Documentary, Revives Cambodia’s Silenced Sounds
(New York Times)
For proof of the universality of rock ’n’ roll, look no further than Cambodia in the 1960s and ’70s. Even there, young people picked up electric guitars and studied Mick Jagger’s moves, melding Eastern melody with Western groove in ways that are still strikingly fresh.
LEAD 2015 Celebrate World Leadership Day March 31-April 1
Very amazing to be involved with LEAD 2015 Celebrate World Leadership Day March 31-April 1! The Keynote address will be given by Prez Bill Clinton, and other speakers includeErin Gruwell, Founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, 10 year-old Vivienne Harr, Founder of Make A Stand, who launched one lemonade stand into a global movement to combat child slavery, and Keith Mitchell, NFL player turned yoga instructor, suffered a debilitating injury, turned to yoga and meditation to help him physically and emotionally recover. Oh, and me. Very cool.
East Asia Regional Council of Schools
Woohoo! I’m going to Bangkok in October to speak at EARCOS (East Asia Regional Council of Schools conference), and plan to be working/writing in Asia for November/December (it was way to cold in Cleveland this winter–and winter hasn’t ended). If anyone out there in FB-Asia-sphere are in need of a visiting speaker on Cambodia, writing, activism–feel free to contact me. Peace & thank you!