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Susan Danish

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    • Civic Leadership

    In a Divided Time, How The Junior League is Showing the Way

    • October 19, 2017
    “It’s like a little hippie, mini-Austin kind of feel,” is how Carla Hallman describes her hometown—a town she still sees as defined by its inordinate amount of non-profit organizations, farmers’…
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      • Civic Leadership

      The Best in Us

      • September 13, 2017
      As with life in general, the worst of times bring out the best in all of us. Over the last weeks as Harvey and Irma raged on, the stories began…
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        • Civic Leadership

        Hurricane Irma Update

        • September 12, 2017
        Our thoughts are with the many who were impacted this weekend by Hurricane Irma across the Caribbean and throughout Florida and the coastal Southeastern United States. As of today, Irma…
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          • Civic Leadership

          Remembering September 11, 2001

          • September 11, 2017
          It seems like yesterday. It seems like centuries ago. Terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC, and the heroism of the…
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            • Civic Leadership

            Hurricane Harvey

            • August 28, 2017
            It is said that the name “Harvey” means “warrior.” And a warrior Hurricane Harvey has proven to be. For those of us not in Houston or the other many communities…
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              • Civic Leadership

              The way forward….

              • August 18, 2017
              Last weekend in Charlottesville, the world watched as organizations marched under the “banners” of freedom of speech and expression. What we witnessed was not about freedom of expression as freedoms…
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                How Was Your National Women’s History Month?

                • March 31, 2017
                National Women’s History Month is over…and I’m exhausted. So many events, so many conversations, so little time. So what’s the impact? What I find most interesting about participating in the…
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                  • Civic Leadership

                  So what’s next?

                  • January 27, 2017
                  On Sunday, like many of you, I was glued to the television, watching endless interviews on a range of channels about the January 21st women’s marches. More than once I…
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                    • Civic Leadership

                    That is not political. That is The Junior League.

                    • November 9, 2016
                    The Junior League is not (and never has been) a political organization, yet I am writing this brief message after the conclusion of an election in the United States that…
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                      • Civic Leadership

                      This Could Happen in Any City

                      • October 5, 2016
                      In a time when civic trauma – whether civil unrest, racially motivated violence, or hate crimes – sweeps many of our cities, Junior Leagues are facing the challenge of demonstrating…
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