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Bianca Tabourn
mirror. Buy my mom the house I promised her when I was 13-years old. Buy my father the car I promised him just yesterday. Be remembered as the woman who erased the achievement gap between minority and white students. Have my grandmother stick around long enough to meet...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Just Extraordinary
foster care and orphanages to help raise international awareness about orphan issues. Turner, herself adopted out of Washington’s foster care system, worked at Procter & Gamble and BET Networks before becoming a successful entrepreneur. “My goal is to show teenage...
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- 02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World
sponsoring a child there. A bunch of people at our church—you know, 100 some people at our church had been sponsoring children in this village in Tanzania, and I was one of eight people from our church who got to go on a visit to see all these View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
have one last morning of kissing his three kids goodbye and going to work and thinking everything was OK. One final bit of normal, she thought. The initial post-diagnosis plan was for Benjy to continue his busy schedule as a radiologist,...
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Maybe, you know, those days that you’re late getting home from work, when you are in person, maybe there’s a neighbor who also has kids who you could rely on to keep an eye that your kids get off the school...
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Ryan Kennedy
McDonald's – seeing firsthand the building blocks of opportunity. Hard work, sacrifice, and support for one another. I retired my McDonald's uniform many years ago. I won’t retire the learning: opportunity is a precious gift, but one best shared. I will dedicate my...
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- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
tipping point where the idea of kids growing up healthy and going to college becomes the norm, not the exception.” Owusu-Kesse’s day job can be intense, and one way he unwinds is through music. As DJ K. Kess, he enjoys presiding over...
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- 25 Jun 2024
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On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
simple. I wake up, get ready, and head downstairs for breakfast and pre-school activities with my three kids and husband. I always start my day with a Diet Coke. Mornings are calm compared to the after school/work time when we juggle...
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- 01 Nov 2018
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The Power of Civility
It's a very self-centered world these days, and that does worry me about our future as a civilization. “One of the things that my parents taught me when I was a kid was that we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and we can't...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
about tomorrow morning?" and drove all night from Montreal to get there. I learned that kids from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale weren't necessarily smarter, but they did have two incredible advantages: exposure to leaders and an expanded...
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Philia Hiotis
nearby Greek tavern, and the times my grandmother used to sneak me Greek coffee behind my parents' back. I want to capture memories with my family and friends to have something to look back on. I want my kids to draw pictures of what they...
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- 10 Mar 2016
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Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
difficulty many American students have solving problems independently. “If you give [American] kids a math problem and tell them how to solve it,” he said, “they can usually do it. But if you give them a problem and it’s not clear how to...
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Robert Duke Biederman
boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a company by day, but take my View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
increasing the organization’s visibility. “We may have discovered a better way to teach young kids mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking...
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Yong-yi Zhu
human race. Who knows? Maybe one day, a young kid will look out his window, and even with parents in different corners of the world, will still feel as though they are right next to him.
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Terrance Rogers
jobs, she worked tirelessly to make sure her kids had the opportunity to dream. I’m sure she had a dream once, but it was buried under her circumstances. Her dream was buried, under the thumb of Jim Crow in the South. Her dream was...
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Mark Cicirelli
When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity....
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Gordon C. Liao
from unseen communities on stage, tv, in page and through the movies build self esteem for next generation's babies so tomorrow my kid can say he's proud of his beginnings wondering why his daddy was ever nicknamed mr. miyagi i want to...
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Molli Hourihan
They both knew how to love through food. I don't have children yet but I know that becoming a mother will be my greatest achievement. I hope the dishes my husband and I make our kids will inspire them to develop tastes and minds of their...
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