U.N. Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah
Big Ocean Women is participating in the U.N. Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA this week. We have been involved in the planning of this event and…
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September 2019 Board Message
We Seek After Knowledge and Wisdom This summer I have had the amazing opportunity to live in southeast Alaska where my husband got a job as a deep-sea fishing captain.…
On Backpacks and First Days
When I started college I had a battered old backpack, dark green, filled with books and pencils and notebooks. It was faded and fraying at the edges, the leather bottom…
Cottage Industry Series: Provo Cottage
Provo Cottage Industry: Women of Wisdom Finding and Sharing Wisdom Grace Garn, a young adult member and one of the leaders for the combined Provo Student and Provo Cottage, described…
Wisdom of the Generations
Archetypically and mythologically, women have had a role largely contained within the private sphere. As women have moved into new domains, particularly in the last one hundred years, one of…
A Thousand Points of Light: Voices from CSW – Noorani Barkhat
Nestled at the foot of a string of majestic mountains, so tall their tops are wreathed in clouds and mist, lies a long, green valley that used to be a…
To Learn and to Teach – Our Responsibility
I believe that two of the most important responsibilities each of us has are learning and teaching. In this vast world, opportunities may vary as far accessibility to classrooms, certified…
Some insights from the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit
Recently we got to talk to Melyssa Webb and Dana Robb, two Big Ocean members who attended the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit held in Washington, D.C. in June. …