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    Back to the Future: Eleanor Roosevelt and the UDHR

    • March 8, 2018
    This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most important documents you may have never heard of. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations proclaimed and adopted the…
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      A Tradition Starting in 1901, Reimagined on 19/01

      • October 24, 2017
      “We have the responsibility to act, and we have the opportunity to conscientiously act to affect the environment about us.” That was how Mary Harriman described the mission of The…
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        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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          It’s Just Equality

          • September 22, 2017
          Even when you know how a movie is going to end, the real satisfaction comes in watching how the story unfolds. When I got the chance to attend an advance…
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            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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              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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                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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                  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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                    Will We Finish What the Suffragettes Started?

                    • August 25, 2017
                    Women’s Equality Day, celebrated in the United States every year on August 26th, is the country’s moment to acknowledge the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to…
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                      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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