An Interview from UN CSW: Melissa Crutchfield
Melissa Crutchfield, director of Community Impact for Episcopal Relief and Development, explains some of the work she is involved with through her organization to help people find the power within…
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Meet Big Ocean: Shelli Spotts
Changing the World Word by Word Shelli Spotts is a writer. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing, belongs to a writers’ group, and teaches college students writing and…
November 2018 Board Message
THE MODEL OF POWERFUL IMPACT “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Mahatma Gandhi. He understood The Model of Powerful Impact. Change starts from within. When…
Emergency Action: We Need Your Help!
Dear Big Ocean Women, We have been made aware through our global networks and coalitions the need for action on a particular issue, the CDA230 (Communications Decency Act Section 230)…
Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi Shares Her favorite quote
Dayo shares thoughts about her favorite quote: Dayo said, “Here come some words from the writer, Henry David Thoreau: ‘If one advances confidently in the direction of his or her…
Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi, A Woman Who Speaks and Acts with Integrity
I met Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi, on my first day at the Conference on the Status of Women, at the UN this year. Her first name, Adedayo, meaning “the crown that brings…
Just One Thing
Our internal compass doesn’t require handbooks and hours of training to operate. We needn’t navigate difficult trails. In fact, we may become lost in life if we try to take…
Small and Simple Things
Members of a women’s organization were recently given a “compass course challenge” to find a small and simple thing that they were led to do and then write down how…
October 2018 Board Message
The Ultimate Protection System I have been thinking a lot about this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s priority theme. It’s about social protection systems and special…