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John Sage - Founder, Bridges to Life
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 John Sage www.bridgestolife.org
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713-463-7200 John Sage is the Founder and Executive Director of Bridges To Life. Born and raised in Houston, John graduated from St. Thomas High School. He attended Louisiana State University where he graduated with a BS degree in Finance and a Masters degree in Business Administration. Most of John's professional life has been spent in the real estate and financial areas of business. John has been married to his wife Frances for 41 years and they have two sons, John and Hunter, daughters-in-law Tiffany and Dominique, and grandsons Hunter, Jr., and Hudson.
In 1993, John's younger sister, Marilyn, was murdered. The two killers were apprehended and subsequently sentenced to the death penalty. After several years of trauma, rage, and grief, this life changing experience inspired John to found Bridges To Life in an effort to empower victims and rehabilitate prisoners. Bridges To Life searches for and embraces victims of violent crime, who are often broken by their pain, grief, and rage.
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Since its inception in 2000, Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Technology Programs have provided free technology education and interactive experiences to thousands of young women around the world.
The DigiGirlz Programs began with a high-tech camp facilitated at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA in 2000 with 35 students, and is continually expanding into other geographies. For example, in 2010, the DigiGirlz camps were held in nine U.S. locations (Charlotte, Fargo, Irving/Las Colinas, Redmond, Philadelphia, San Diego, St. Louis, Stony Brook, and Washington, DC) and international camps were held in locations such as China and Sweden. One-day events are also part of the overall program. In 2010 33 one-day events were held globally, from Waltham, MA to Warszawa, Poland. One-day events were also held in international locations such as El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Dubai, Johannesburg, Moscow, Bucharest, Copenhagen, and Kualua Lumpur, as well as additional U.S. locations.
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Lobbying for Healthy Female Image in Media
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|  Actress Geena Davis is taking her quest to bring equality and gender fairness in the media and entertainment industries to the ones who can bring about substantial change -- lawmakers -- and is supporting the proposed Healthy Media for Youth Act.
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The 10 Most Powerful Women in Television
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 Bonnie Hammer USA Networks For 50 years, television was a man's business. It was an industry about dominance - winners took all. And then the business started to change. Read More Here...
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Featured Author - Jyl DeHaven
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 Founder, Jyl's Green Planet Co-Founder, Green Collar Vets Funerals – the ultimate emotional rollercoaster
I have reached middle age – or a bit past middle, headed to “age”. It is a time that I love, a time when I am more comfortable in my own skin than I have ever been. It is also a time when losing people that I love seems to be happening more frequently. Death seems to magnify who we are – or actually how we respond to things that scare us or make us uncomfortable. We rally as families and appreciate the good, the bad, and the ugly of those relationships and realize that no matter how hard we try to “get over it”, when a loved ones dies, it sucks.
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Award Winning Coach Inspires Young Women to Achieve Their Dreams…
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| LANCASTER, Texas – Jerrika Chapple remembers running sprints at Lancaster High School as gusting winds blew her off balance. She remembers practicing as rain poured down, too. The former Lancaster sprinter, the star of state champion teams in 2001, '02 and '03, even remembers heading out to the track when temperatures dipped below freezing.
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Salah Boukadoum, the Co-Founder of Soap Hope, passionately believes it is unacceptable to allow another human being to suffer in poverty without assistance.
At the age of 15, he decided his career would be as a classical concert pianist. He toured the world playing concerts in America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. While on tour he was invited by the Ambassador of Kenya to a high-level dinner where he was seated by the country director of the World Bank in Kenya.
 The man told Salah a story that haunted him: he explained that at least 50% and perhaps up to 90% of the aid being delivered to the people of Kenya was being lost to corruption. His story led the young musician to a lifelong interest and study in creating effective solutions to end poverty.
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 Maria Bowling earned a Bachelors of Arts from Oberlin College in Ohio with a major in Art History. After a career in the greeting card industry and as a textile designer she was called to a career in the healing arts. Maria earned her degree in Massage Therapy from the Swedish Institute in New York City. One year after completing her studies she began her training in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City where she earned a Bachelors Degree of Professional Studies and a Masters Degree of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine and completed the Herbal studies program. Maria maintains professional licenses in New York state in Massage Therapy and Acupuncture. Maria is certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) as a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine. Currently she is completing a Certificate in Botanical Illustration at the New York Botanical Gardens with the goal of creating an illustrated botanical manual of Chinese herbs.
Maria's Story......
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