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Finally, here are a few more of the women with a vision from eXXpedition. They are doing their part to clean up the planet! We can begin in our own backyards. Larissa Clark, Communications Manager Larissa is a passionate advocate for environmental and social justice; Founding Director of Another World Adventures and an energetic marketing & communications specialist. A graduate of the Manchester School of Management (UMIST) with a BSc Hons degree in International Management, she’s also studied at the Warrington College of Business, Florida where she wrote an award winning report on Sustainability in Higher Education. Larissa splits her time between Vancouver and London, and recently spent t

More on the women who lead eXXpedition. They have a vision and they are cleaning up the planet. Let me introduce you to some of them! Soraya Abdel-Hadi, Operations Manager Soraya is a sustainability professional and advocate for women’s rights, who is passionate about creating a holistic approach to improving our planet. After graduating with a law degree, she worked as an equestrian journalist and then as a marketing manager, before returning to university to achieve her One Planet MBA. This business course with a focus on sustainability cemented her desire to integrate sustainable processes into organizations and demonstrate her values through her own actions. But Soraya believes that ther

Excerpted from GOOD, by Heidi Lux 7/19 When I saw this article, I knew that I had to share it. These women inspired me so much and if I am being completely honest, kind of awakened a spirit of adventure in me. I will include a brief bio and photo of some of these truly inspiring women over the next few posts. I post on Sundays and Thursdays, so stay tuned for more about these warrior women! Each year, we produce so much plastic that by 2050, the amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish, if we don’t slow down. To tackle that problem, an all female expedition is setting out to make sure this doesn’t happen by “raising awareness of, and explore solutions to, the devastating environm

Margaret E. Kuhn, better known as "Maggie", was born on August 3rd, 1905 in Buffalo, New York. Her family was conservative and middle class. They moved in 1916 to Cleveland, Ohio where Maggie lived until 1930. She attended Western University's College for Women in Cleveland, where she majored in English with minors in sociology and French. "Sociology, for me, related the community to the individual, and showed us a way to act responsibly in groups." With her sociology class, Kuhn visited jails, sweatshops, and slums. Kuhn described what she saw as "illuminating and shocking." She felt that her college career had a profound effect on who she became. "I'm eternally grateful for the education

I am guessing that at some point in time or history, we have all heard of Lucy Stone. But what do we really know about her? Maybe we remember she was a strident voice for suffrage. That is true, but Lucy Stone was a remarkable woman in many other ways too. Lucy was an orator, a suffragist and an abolitionist; a woman who battled inequality on all fronts for her entire life. She was the first woman in Massachusetts, my home state, to earn a college degree. She is also the woman who wrote her own marriage vows to reflect her egalitarian beliefs and kept her maiden name. Lucy was born on August 13, 1818 in a rural town of West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Francis and

The Great Depression of the 1930’s hit everyone hard but the remote hills of Appalachia where poverty was already rampant, was one of the hardest hit areas. The rural mountains were isolated. The people living there had little or no access to jobs or education. They also lacked books: In 1930, up to 31 percent of people in eastern Kentucky couldn’t read. They had no means of escaping the vicious economic trap and they felt their survival was threatened. President Franklin Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration and the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so that they’d have a better chance of finding employment. The Pack Horse initiative sent l

Noor Inayat Khan, was technically a Princess. She was the eldest of four children, was born on New Year's Day 1914 in Moscow. Her father was a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Muslim ruler of Mysore, Tipu, India. (Sultan, called the Tiger of Mysore, is known for his valiant acts in several wars and the sacrifices he made to save his land from foreign invaders. He is remembered for saving Deccan India from the British for a long period of time. He was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799.) Khan's father was a musician and Sufi teacher. Her mother, Pirani Ameena Begum (born Ora Ray Baker), was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who met Inayat Khan duri

Maureen has become one of my favorite contemporary poets. Her work inspires me almost daily. I am posting this today, with her permission. Please visit her on Facebook (Heart's Calling) or find her books. She is a treasure. About Maureen Kwiat Meshenberg: Maureen is guided by her inner soul’s journey and her warm and empathic musings about life. It was as a teenager that Maureen first started writing her unique style poetry… as a means to find her spiritual connection in her human experience. Maureen was always drawn to writing reflective soulful thoughts of the heart, bringing the shifts in life’s journey to her poetry. From an interview with Book Goodies From Maureen: I have come to a

From: assembly.malala.org. by Shegufa Bayat on July 3, 2019. Photo credit: Daniel Wheeler Striking photos show Afghan women climbing mountains and shattering norms. Pure inspiration!! The author, Shegufa Bayat From the Hindu Kush to the Pamir Mountains, towering mountain ranges cover Afghanistan. Although the country’s rugged topography attracts climbers from around the world, few Afghan women scale these mountains. Ascent Athletics is working to change that. Founded in 2014, the nonprofit builds young Faghan women’s leadership skills and confidence through athletic-based leadership training, particularly mountain climbing. Each year, they recruit a team of Afghan girls ages 15 to 24 for