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Seattle Graduate Battles to End Fistula; Crippling Childbearing Injury »

Seattle native Heidi Breeze-Harris was two months pregnant when she began Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. She had recently heard about fistula for the first time, and was thinking about starting a non-profit organization to combat the problem. It seemed to be a perfect fit for a project in the program. Little did she know what her project […]

Mastery Of Scottish Arts: A Landmark Education Community Project begun by John Callahan »

When John Callahan was a participant in the Self Expression and Leadership Program in Seattle, he created a community project dedicated to the preservation of Sottish arts, culture and History. While John’s project started as a one time event, it quickly began to grow and take on a life of it’s own. Here is John’s […]

Landmark Education Self Expression & Leadership Project Uses Photography to Help Children Living in a Tough Neighborhood Find Beauty in Everyday Life »

Uplifiting Images Of Tenderloin CommunityStudents Help Change Perception Of Tough Neighborhood
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From ABC7 KGO-TV/DT San Francisco
By Carolyn Tyler
Mar. 28 - KGO - We want to take you to a school in a tough San Francisco neighborhood that’s helping their students rise above their environment in a very creative way.

De Marillac Academy sits in the […]

Landmark Graduate Creates Project to Allow Policy Makers and Welfare Recipients to Truly Understand Each Other »

How the Other Half Lives: “Walk a Mile” dares welfare policymakers and welfare recipients to swap lives
How’s this for a devastatingly simple solution to an age-old social problem? While Natasha Grossman was studying social work and interning at a welfare-reform lobbying organization in Washington state, she saw first-hand the cultural gap that existed between […]

Landmark Education graduate creates photography workshop for children of cancer patients »

Seattle Times
March 1, 2007
By Alan Berner Staff Photographer
Through My Eyes, Photography taught to kids at Hutch Cancer Research Center
Hutch School
A camera company used to advertise, “You push the button, we do the rest” — as if good photography comes from a machine instead of the head, heart and eye.
The camera in our culture has led […]