Girl Em(power)ment: Laurel Touby, Leslie Harris and Sheila Krumholz Speak with Changemakers about Women, Tools and Technology
In case you missed the Changemakers.com Twitterview podcasts with Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby, Center for Democracy + Technology CEO Leslie Harris and Center for Responsive Politics Executive Director Sheila Krumholz this week, we've got them posted here on Ashoka.org for your perusal! They are...
Putting it into Practice: Building Local Capacity to Improve Maternal Health
It has been a month since I arrived in Argentina. I am based in Pilar, a town at the northern border of the municipal boundaries of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires and the Province of Buenos Aires. For the next nine months, I have been matched with Ashoka Fellow Alberto Vázquez who founded an...
Internationally Acclaimed Hungarian Independent Midwife and Ashoka Fellow Dr. Agnes Gereb Imprisoned, Pending Trial
The story of Ashoka Fellow Agnes Gereb is the story of homebirthing in modern Hungary. A story that shows how Hungary, since its return to full independence in 1990, continues to restrict free choice of its citizens in the hugely important area of childbirth. From the all- powerful Board of...
Ideas from the Fringe, Front and Center
Atlantic Monthly celebrates Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi in its Brave Thinkers Edition What do UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, and Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi have in common? They’re all among the nineteen change makers in the annual "Brave Thinkers" edition of...
Passo a Passo
Fourteen-year old Ingrid, in recovery from a crippling crack addiction at the Lua Nova residency in Araçoiaba, Brazil, found out that she is pregnant this past week. Two days after the news broke she ran away. The weight and terror of such an unknown future was simply too much to bear, and she...