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Dr. Sandra Boesch worked for IBM for 10 years, for Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, and has lived on 3 continents. She recently repatriated to Arizona in the US. She has worked in communications, marketing, public relations, software product management, sales enablement, and education technologies. She has worked as a worldwide manager and lived in Latin America, Asia, and North America. She love cultures and cultural differences.She believes and is excited about continued education. She ...
Freida Adams, the retired Director of Border Health for New Mexico talks about the coalition she stays involved with, the questions the Biden administration has already been asking in her circles to get their transition plan in place regarding Covid and the situation with immigrants, especially kids in cages on the border. She talks about the long wait to see a woman become Vice President, and how that made her want to reach out to her granddaughter to celebrate that moment. She talks about her ...
As the US citizens head to the polls, Eric Woodard reminds us of what his time of working in the White House taught him about what we should consider when voting for a US President. Dr. Eric Woodard is an internationally recognized high performance executive career coach and mentor dedicated to helping professionals at all levels win at work.Part of the reason Eric is so focused on career success is because he struggled so much early in his career. After plowing through the working world for d...
Michelle Ferrigno Warren is the Advocacy and Strategic Engagement Director for the Christian Community Development Association, based in Chicago, IL. She has been working in Christian community development for 27 years utilizing her skills as an educator, non-profit manager and public policy specialist. Michelle earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Cedarville University and later earned her Master's in Public Administration from the University of Colorado. She is an immigration, educ...
Michelle Ferrigno Warren is the Advocacy and Strategic Engagement Director for the Christian Community Development Association, based in Chicago, IL. She has been working in Christian community development for 27 years utilizing her skills as an educator, non-profit manager and public policy specialist. Michelle earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Cedarville University and later earned her Master's in Public Administration from the University of Colorado. She is an immigration, educ...
Arturo Jiménez grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he still lives and works. Arturo is a bilingual lawyer who has practiced federal immigration law since 1998. His humanitarian practice has represented thousands of individuals in Colorado and other States. Arturo's law office helps unify families through spouse petitions, family immigration, naturalization, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), visas for victims and deportation defense in immigration court. Most of all, they seek to supp...
Arturo Jiménez grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he still lives and works. Arturo is a bilingual lawyer who has practiced federal immigration law since 1998. His humanitarian practice has represented thousands of individuals in Colorado and other States. Arturo's law office helps unify families through spouse petitions, family immigration, naturalization, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), visas for victims and deportation defense in immigration court. Most of all, they seek to supp...
Gracia Berrios works for One Justice in San Francisco to help DACA immigrants to find legal help with their immigration process. She immigrated to the US from Peru as a baby with her family, and went through the grueling years of legal immigration, watching her family walk through the emotionally and financially taxing process. She now wants to help those who need the resources to make legal immigration work, despite the almost weekly setbacks that the current administration’s changes make incre...
Gracia Berrios works for One Justice in San Francisco to help DACA immigrants to find legal help with their immigration process. She immigrated to the US from Peru as a baby with her family, and went through the grueling years of legal immigration, watching her family walk through the emotionally and financially taxing process. She now wants to help those who need the resources to make legal immigration work, despite the almost weekly setbacks that the current administration’s changes make incre...
Christopher Kinnison is an immigration lawyer in the US. He travels to dentition centers across Louisiana where ICE currently holds immigrants. He takes us on a deep dive into the ins and outs of what goes on with immigrants in the US court rooms today. He speaks about his views on current policies and processes. He shares his own story of seeing Cambodians flee from the Khmer Rouge into Thailand when he was a boy growing up there, and how he got to see the killing fields near Phnom Penh for him...
Christopher Kinnison is an immigration lawyer in the US. He travels to dentition centers across Louisiana where ICE currently holds immigrants. He takes us on a deep dive into the ins and outs of what goes on with immigrants in the US court rooms today. He speaks about his views on current policies and processes. He shares his own story of seeing Cambodians flee from the Khmer Rouge into Thailand when he was a boy growing up there, and how he got to see the killing fields near Phnom Penh for him...
Lisa Rodriguez Watson is the National Director of Missio Alliance. She has served as an urban church planter, collegiate minister, and worked with refugees in Albania. She is the daughter of a Cuban immigrant. Her heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life, family, and ministry in places and people that have often been overlooked by the world. Lisa served as co-founder of a grassroots organization in Memphis, TN that was committed to mobilizing Chris...
Lisa Rodriguez Watson is the National Director of Missio Alliance. She has served as an urban church planter, collegiate minister, and worked with refugees in Albania. She is the daughter of a Cuban immigrant. Her heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life, family, and ministry in places and people that have often been overlooked by the world. Lisa served as co-founder of a grassroots organization in Memphis, TN that was committed to mobilizing Chris...
Amanda Stillman grew up in Asia, and is now living in Chad, working as the Africa Programs Director for Neverthirst, à nonprofit based in Birmingham AL focused on bringing clean and living water to the poor through the local church. She’s been the weird foreigner most of her life and is ok with that. She loves traveling, languages, cultures and being a part of the global church family. She is very thankful for the crazy, fun, sometimes dangerous adventures she’s had around the world and all the...
Alan Cross, has been a Southern Baptist Pastor in California, Alabama and Mississippi for over 20 years. He is an author of books and has written multiple articles about welcoming the immigrant, racism in the church, and how to tell a better story. He has worked to advocate for government policies at the state and national level that show love to our immigrant neighbors. He shares about his experiences with immigrants and refugees in the US South, on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, TX, and what...
Alan Cross, has been a Southern Baptist Pastor in California, Alabama and Mississippi for over 20 years. He is an author of books and has written multiple articles about welcoming the immigrant, racism in the church, and how to tell a better story. He has worked to advocate for government policies at the state and national level that show love to our immigrant neighbors. He shares about his experiences with immigrants and refugees in the US South, on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, TX, and what...
Bella Adams-Brown shares her thoughts and reactions to the 100 year history of women’s right to vote in the US. She gives a Generation Z, 12-year-old perspective on the complicated struggle for votes for women leading up to Aug 18, 1920. Freida Adams shares a Baby Boomer perspective on what it meant to her to see her mom and other women and men in her family vote when she was a child. We discuss the generations and how setting an example leaves a legacy of how important it is that all voices be ...
Dr. Ron Adams speaks about his life from growing up on a farm to an international job of helping others that took him to live in 3 countries and travel to 30. He talks about a basketball coach who called out the greatness in him as he was growing up, and how he himself later in life called out the greatness in incarcerated inmates serving multiple life sentences where he served as chaplain. He shares about the culture shock of each new country he moved to, and how living internationally taught h...
Freida Adams speaks of her life and career from growing up the only child of a single mom after her beloved father passed away from cancer to becoming. a Registered Nurse. She speaks of life in Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Thailand. She reminisces about the years of starting a clinic in Venezuela, and how Venezuelan friends embraced her as family. She speaks of her years as Director of the Office of Border Health in New Mexico where she coordinated international efforts to address needs on the US-...
Freida Adams speaks of her life and career from growing up the only child of a single mom after her beloved father passed away from cancer to becoming. a Registered Nurse. She speaks of life in Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Thailand. She reminisces about the years of starting a clinic in Venezuela, and how Venezuelan friends embraced her as family. She speaks of her years as Director of the Office of Border Health in New Mexico where she coordinated international efforts to address needs on the US-...
Dr. Christopher Adams talks about growing up bicultural and how this drew him to learn about the immigrant experience. This ultimately led him to pursue a degree in which he could learn to both understand and help those having a challenging time in the US education system, especially on the US border with Mexico. Dr. Adams talks about teaching students with trauma, mental health struggles, and how his music he plays for the homeless community gives him connection. Listen and be inspired, challen...
Dr. Christopher Adams talks about growing up bicultural and how this drew him to learn about the immigrant experience. This ultimately led him to pursue a degree in which he could learn to both understand and help those having a challenging time in the US education system, especially on the US border with Mexico. Dr. Adams talks about teaching students with trauma, mental health struggles, and how his music he plays for the homeless community gives him connection. Listen and be inspired, challen...
Jason Adams-Brown speaks out on over four decades of living in Southeast Asia, and over two decades working in non-profit work including his work in community development and disaster relief. He speaks about leadership lessons he learned following the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that hit Sumatra, and the importance of caring for your own body in order to lead well in hard times. He shares about his experiences with trauma counseling with tsunami victims, and the way telling the story helps alleviate...
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