Posts tagged empowerment
Meet Aline Silva, Brazilian Olympic Wrestler, Tokyo 2020-Bound and Social Impact Entrepreneur

Meet Aline Silva, Tokyo 2020 Olympian and Founder of Mempodera, a social impact program that empowers girls through sport and learning English in Brazil. Aline's mission is to empower more women to achieve their dreams and be warriors against poverty, violence and inequality. Learn more about Aline’s triumphant story from near-death experience to road to Tokyo.

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How To Be A Better LGBTQAI+ Ally

Perhaps 2020 is the year of the “Wakeup call” where we are realizing that it’s time for us to step up and challenge ourselves to understand the people around us more deeply and to just simply be better humans. This year, in June, 2020, I wanted to highlight a few key factors in what I think is necessary to be a better LGBTQAI+ ally.

One thing I think a lot of us are realizing is that there is a lot that we don’t know and there is a lot that we weren’t taught. We learned history, but only one side of it. This has resulted in many of us taking extra time to catch up on the history that we didn’t learn. That being said, it’s time to start holding ourselves accountable to being informed.We have endless information at our fingertips, now we need to use it.

Learn more from Jackie Marschall on how to be a better LGBTQIA+ Ally.

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