By George F on Jul 16, 2008 in Health/Medicine, Landmark Education, Women's Issues, new jersey | 1 Comment
Keisha Sapp and her close friends created Stephanie’s Angels Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day on Saturday, July 12, which had cancer awareness in a variety of locations in Northern New Jersey. Moved into action by the death of her friend Stephanie Wilkins from Ovarian Cancer and her participation in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Sapp […]
By George F on Jul 1, 2008 in Kenya, Women's Issues, california | 0 Comments
Powerful Women International (PWI) has held its first Kenyan women’s empowerment and networking event at the Grand Regency in Nairobi, on June 28. The event was a landmark–PWI’s first ever outside the United States.
PWI CEO and founder Valeri Bocage literally knows what it’s like to create something from nothing. She lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina […]
By George F on Jun 19, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Los Angeles, Women's Issues | 0 Comments
Ellen Snortland is a prominent author, activist and actor who is committed to the empowerment of women worldwide and who has participated in the programs of Landmark Education. She has written a book titled Beauty Bites Beast, about violence against women around the world and what is being done about it. The book, which was translated […]
By Vincent Cahill on Apr 8, 2008 in Health/Medicine, Seattle, Women's Issues | 0 Comments
Earlier this year, Landmark Education News wrote of the efforts of Heidi Breeze-Harris to combat obsetric fistula, a crippling childbirth injury, through the efforts of the organization she founded out of her participation in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, One by One. Video footage has now been released that accompanied Breeze-Harris receiving a Smart […]
By Vincent Cahill on Feb 5, 2008 in Health/Medicine, Parenting, Seattle, Women's Issues | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Olivia Seery on Jan 16, 2008 in Health/Medicine, India, Women's Issues | 0 Comments
Imagine burns covering 75% of your body. Curled up at home, away from the light, curtains drawn. You are ashamed of your own reflection, spurned by family and in agony from huge lesions that cover you. That is how scores of forgotten burns victims while away their days. Most of them could easily have died […]
By Vincent Cahill on Jan 9, 2008 in Books, Mexico, Women's Issues, california | 1 Comment
Landmark Education Graduate Ellen Snortland is an actor, author and activist and has dedicated herself to the empowerment of women. She has written a book Beauty Bites Beast that has received praise from women’s organizations around the world. Most recently it has been published in Spanish and is now being made into a documentary. Beauty […]
By Heather D on Dec 20, 2007 in Autstralia/New Zealand, Health/Medicine, Parenting, Video Features, Women's Issues, children | 0 Comments
Seneka Cohen is a midwife and mother who while participating in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program determined to make a difference in the exceptionally high mortality rate among Australian Aboriginal mothers and babies. She created The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Birthright Quilt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6Mzs7CVHg
The Birthright Quilt is a national, community-based initiative to address […]