These Women Have Made
the World a Better Place
I want to thank each extraordinary woman for
sharing their expertise to help others "rise."
Chantal and Michal Belzberg
OneFamily Fund Organization
OneFamily Fund began with a selfless act by one
twelve-year-old girl. Michal was preparing for
her Bat Mitzvah in Jerusalem when a suicide
bomber struck a crowded restaurant. The
attack murdered 15 and wounded 130 Jewish
men, women, and children. It was the most
deadly attack in Jerusalem since the beginning
of the Intifadah in September 2000.
Michal felt she could celebrate. They cancelled
her Bat Mitzvah and contributed the party's
funds to victims. She encouraged friends and
family to give the victims everything they
planned to give her.
Medea Benjamin
Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org
Medea is Founding Director of Global Exchange.
For over twenty years, she has supported human
rights and social justice struggles globally. As a
leading activist for peace and helped bring
together groups to form United for Peace and
Justice, she co-founded CODEPINK: Women for
Peace, a women's group that organizes creative
actions against the war and occupation of Iraq,
www.codepinkalert.org. Medea traveled to Iraq
and helped establish the Occupation Watch
International Center in Baghdad that monitors
the military occupation forces and foreign
corporations through the web site www.
occupationwatch.org.
Karen Duncan
M.A., LSW, LMFT
The Right to be Safe
karenduncan@healing4women.com
Link to her book:
Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual
Abuse: A Journey for Women
Karen is a licensed therapist, author, clinical
educator and national speaker known for
advocacy work with women and children in
treating and preventing sexual abuse and family
violence. Her book, "Healing from the Trauma of
Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for
Women" shares the journey of healing from
women who have experienced this trauma.
Sarah Holewinski
Executive Director
CIVIC
In 2001, six weeks after the beginning of war in
Afghanistan, Marla Ruzicka traveled to Pakistan
to visit Afghan refugee camps. There she saw
the human cost of armed conflict – maimed
children and widowed mothers. On April 16,
2005, Marla was killed by a suicide bomber in
Baghdad. In January 2006, Sarah Holewinski was
hired as CIVIC's executive director. She had
been a member of The White House AIDS policy
team throughout President Clinton’s second
term and later joined West Wing Writers.
Susan Jeffers
www.susanjeffers.com
Purchase her books
Purchase her products
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. has helped millions of
people throughout the world overcome their
fears, heal their relationships, and move forward
in life with confidence and love.
Azam Kamguian
www.azamkamguian.co.uk
Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the
Middle East
www.bikhodayan.com
Azam is an Iranian writer and women's rights
activist. She was born in 1958, started political
activities as a socialist in 1976. She was
imprisoned for a year for organizing student
protests. Throughout her activities, Azam
organized several campaigns in defense of
women's rights in the Middle East and advocated
Middle Eastern women's rights. Currently, she
lives and works in London, England.
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
www.lightfoot-klein.com
Purchase her book: Secret Wounds
For the past quarter of a century, Lightfoot has
been speaking out against Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM), violently perpetrated on more
than a hundred million women in 28 African and
Arab countries. Her in-depth study of FGM
conducted over 6-years in sub-Saharan Africa
shed light on secret rituals that had until then
remained hidden from the Western world.
the World a Better Place
I want to thank each extraordinary woman for
sharing their expertise to help others "rise."
Chantal and Michal Belzberg
OneFamily Fund Organization
OneFamily Fund began with a selfless act by one
twelve-year-old girl. Michal was preparing for
her Bat Mitzvah in Jerusalem when a suicide
bomber struck a crowded restaurant. The
attack murdered 15 and wounded 130 Jewish
men, women, and children. It was the most
deadly attack in Jerusalem since the beginning
of the Intifadah in September 2000.
Michal felt she could celebrate. They cancelled
her Bat Mitzvah and contributed the party's
funds to victims. She encouraged friends and
family to give the victims everything they
planned to give her.
Medea Benjamin
Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org
Medea is Founding Director of Global Exchange.
For over twenty years, she has supported human
rights and social justice struggles globally. As a
leading activist for peace and helped bring
together groups to form United for Peace and
Justice, she co-founded CODEPINK: Women for
Peace, a women's group that organizes creative
actions against the war and occupation of Iraq,
www.codepinkalert.org. Medea traveled to Iraq
and helped establish the Occupation Watch
International Center in Baghdad that monitors
the military occupation forces and foreign
corporations through the web site www.
occupationwatch.org.
Karen Duncan
M.A., LSW, LMFT
The Right to be Safe
karenduncan@healing4women.com
Link to her book:
Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual
Abuse: A Journey for Women
Karen is a licensed therapist, author, clinical
educator and national speaker known for
advocacy work with women and children in
treating and preventing sexual abuse and family
violence. Her book, "Healing from the Trauma of
Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for
Women" shares the journey of healing from
women who have experienced this trauma.
Sarah Holewinski
Executive Director
CIVIC
In 2001, six weeks after the beginning of war in
Afghanistan, Marla Ruzicka traveled to Pakistan
to visit Afghan refugee camps. There she saw
the human cost of armed conflict – maimed
children and widowed mothers. On April 16,
2005, Marla was killed by a suicide bomber in
Baghdad. In January 2006, Sarah Holewinski was
hired as CIVIC's executive director. She had
been a member of The White House AIDS policy
team throughout President Clinton’s second
term and later joined West Wing Writers.
Susan Jeffers
www.susanjeffers.com
Purchase her books
Purchase her products
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. has helped millions of
people throughout the world overcome their
fears, heal their relationships, and move forward
in life with confidence and love.
Azam Kamguian
www.azamkamguian.co.uk
Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the
Middle East
www.bikhodayan.com
Azam is an Iranian writer and women's rights
activist. She was born in 1958, started political
activities as a socialist in 1976. She was
imprisoned for a year for organizing student
protests. Throughout her activities, Azam
organized several campaigns in defense of
women's rights in the Middle East and advocated
Middle Eastern women's rights. Currently, she
lives and works in London, England.
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
www.lightfoot-klein.com
Purchase her book: Secret Wounds
For the past quarter of a century, Lightfoot has
been speaking out against Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM), violently perpetrated on more
than a hundred million women in 28 African and
Arab countries. Her in-depth study of FGM
conducted over 6-years in sub-Saharan Africa
shed light on secret rituals that had until then
remained hidden from the Western world.
Mary Beth Markey
U.S. Executive Director
International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)
Before Mary Beth was ICT's U.S .Executive
Director, she furthered Tibet's understanding and
ICT's influence in Congress and the Administration
as ICT's Director of Government Relations.
Previously, She was a staffer on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee where, for eight
years under then Chairman Claiborne Pell (D-RI)
with a variety of responsibilities including Deputy
and Acting Press Spokesperson and monitored
human rights and refugees issues, including those
of the Tibetan people. She also has worked for
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Mission in
the United States.
Patricia Yancey Martin
Purchase her book: Rape Work
Despite an increase in rape crisis centers and
improvements in the treatment of rape victims
over the past 30 years, many are still pervasively
mistreated by the police, doctors, lawyers,
judges and administrators who process them.
Patricia studied how the law enforcement, legal
and health care systems respond when someone
alleges that he or she has been raped.
Samantha Power
Author A Problem from Hell: America and the
Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and
New York Times Best Seller
Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of
Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Her New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur,
Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for
best reporting. She was the founding executive
director of the Carr Center for Human Rights
Policy. From 1993-1996, she covered the wars in
the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S.
News and World Report, The Boston Globe, and
The Economist. Power is the editor, with Graham
Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from
Inspiration to Impact.
Connie Saindon
MFT
Survivors of Violent Loss Program
Connie is Founder of the Survivors of Violent
Death Program that has provided services to
survivors and caregivers since 1998. She is co-
author of a three-year pilot study and presented
her work at the American Psychiatry Associations
Annual Conference. She is editor of The Survivors
of Violent Loss Network,www.svlp.org, that
provides resources and tips for members of the
Survivors Club, “a club you never wanted to be a
member of.”
Dr. Adele Scheele
Purchase her books
Dr. Scheele, an internationally recognized career
coach, is the author of Skills for Success for Men
and Women and Jumpstart Your Career in
College. Dr. Scheele’s "Skills for Success Minutes"
air on satellite radio and on Microsoft video. She
appears frequently on television such as NBC’s
Today Show and has hosted KABC’s Talk Radio
show. Her column “Career Strategies” appeared
in Working Woman Magazine and was collected in
Career Strategies for the Working Woman.
Laurie-Ann Weis
Author The Water Dance and The After Journey
http://laurieannweis.com
Laurie-Ann stopped teaching after her husband—
and soulmate—died from cancer. It took time to
sort through emotions and gather strength to live
again. All she accomplished meant nothing. She
wrote her memoir, The Water Dance, to help
others cope with the loss of a spouse. The After
Journey tells of her first year of widowhood
Coleen Widell
Co-founder American Institute on Domestic
Violence
Coleen has held positions in criminal justice,
direct services and public administration. She
served as a Probation Officer in Washington for 15
years working with criminal offenders and abused
women and their children. She also conducted
investigations of child abuse and neglect for the
Department of Social & Health Services.
She is the author of books and articles about
domestic violence including “Dead Dollar$: The
Corporate Cost of Domestic Violence” and
"Domestic Violence Targets the Heart of
American Business."
U.S. Executive Director
International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)
Before Mary Beth was ICT's U.S .Executive
Director, she furthered Tibet's understanding and
ICT's influence in Congress and the Administration
as ICT's Director of Government Relations.
Previously, She was a staffer on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee where, for eight
years under then Chairman Claiborne Pell (D-RI)
with a variety of responsibilities including Deputy
and Acting Press Spokesperson and monitored
human rights and refugees issues, including those
of the Tibetan people. She also has worked for
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Mission in
the United States.
Patricia Yancey Martin
Purchase her book: Rape Work
Despite an increase in rape crisis centers and
improvements in the treatment of rape victims
over the past 30 years, many are still pervasively
mistreated by the police, doctors, lawyers,
judges and administrators who process them.
Patricia studied how the law enforcement, legal
and health care systems respond when someone
alleges that he or she has been raped.
Samantha Power
Author A Problem from Hell: America and the
Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and
New York Times Best Seller
Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of
Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Her New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur,
Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for
best reporting. She was the founding executive
director of the Carr Center for Human Rights
Policy. From 1993-1996, she covered the wars in
the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S.
News and World Report, The Boston Globe, and
The Economist. Power is the editor, with Graham
Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from
Inspiration to Impact.
Connie Saindon
MFT
Survivors of Violent Loss Program
Connie is Founder of the Survivors of Violent
Death Program that has provided services to
survivors and caregivers since 1998. She is co-
author of a three-year pilot study and presented
her work at the American Psychiatry Associations
Annual Conference. She is editor of The Survivors
of Violent Loss Network,www.svlp.org, that
provides resources and tips for members of the
Survivors Club, “a club you never wanted to be a
member of.”
Dr. Adele Scheele
Purchase her books
Dr. Scheele, an internationally recognized career
coach, is the author of Skills for Success for Men
and Women and Jumpstart Your Career in
College. Dr. Scheele’s "Skills for Success Minutes"
air on satellite radio and on Microsoft video. She
appears frequently on television such as NBC’s
Today Show and has hosted KABC’s Talk Radio
show. Her column “Career Strategies” appeared
in Working Woman Magazine and was collected in
Career Strategies for the Working Woman.
Laurie-Ann Weis
Author The Water Dance and The After Journey
http://laurieannweis.com
Laurie-Ann stopped teaching after her husband—
and soulmate—died from cancer. It took time to
sort through emotions and gather strength to live
again. All she accomplished meant nothing. She
wrote her memoir, The Water Dance, to help
others cope with the loss of a spouse. The After
Journey tells of her first year of widowhood
Coleen Widell
Co-founder American Institute on Domestic
Violence
Coleen has held positions in criminal justice,
direct services and public administration. She
served as a Probation Officer in Washington for 15
years working with criminal offenders and abused
women and their children. She also conducted
investigations of child abuse and neglect for the
Department of Social & Health Services.
She is the author of books and articles about
domestic violence including “Dead Dollar$: The
Corporate Cost of Domestic Violence” and
"Domestic Violence Targets the Heart of
American Business."
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