“1300 hours I cringe every time I see his face or hear his voice. I’m Captain Josiah Rollins. A six-foot-two, fifty-year-old decorated veteran. I served two tours in Iraq, seen someone’s life pass in the blink of an eye. Today, I sit here having anxiety issues because I must interact with this moron. My blood pressure spikes just thinking about …
Jolyne Jelimo on Developing Youth Leaders in Education Cohorts Around the Globe
Jolyne Jelimo is the country head and Vice President of Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA) for Kenya. Her rise to this leadership position shows you exactly where her values lie as a rising influencer in her country, especially when it comes to impacting education, economic development, and youth mindset. The latter is more important than you may think, especially, within the …
Brett Puterbaugh Matches Education and Mentors with Communities in Need
Brett Puterbaugh is the Chief Impact Officer for Village Book Builders, headquartered in the U.S. What Brett and his partners do is to create an education opportunity where there isn’t any. They do that with a combination of hardware, software, mentors, and books – lots and lots of books. They partner with areas of the world where even connectivity to …
From the Student View: What Back To School Means During Pandemic
Ava Wettrick and Marley Dozier are miles apart geographically, and in age, they are just a few years apart, but, they share some similar issues and concerns when it comes to making education work for them during this pandemic year. Ava is a 2nd-year college student and Marley is a 3rd-year high school student. Both are based in the US. …
Wells International Foundation on Impacting Young Readers, Writers, and Artists From Halfway Across the World
The first thing you notice about Monique Wells is the smile that lights up an entire room. Texas-born Monique is now in the place she dreamed of as a child – Paris, France. She first arrived in Paris as a young reader who only imagined herself there – later to make it her home. It’s that imagination that she wants …
Naphtali Bryant Innovates the Higher Education Experience for Students and Parents
Naphtali Bryant, as the Founder of Spark-Ed University, comes to his role with the dual experience of current student and school administration professional. Add to that, the extraordinary event of being hired by a school that he’s attended. While seeking out educational opportunities, Naphtali literally built his own experience making the most of both educational and leadership opportunities, and he …
Clare Overmann Helps Higher Education Create Global Partnerships
Clare Overmann is the Head of Higher Education Initiatives at the Institute of International Education. Her goal is to help campuses worldwide to connect with others for partnerships that could create mutual benefit and spread a culturally healthy perspective within all stakeholders. The goal is lofty, but, so is the mission of the Institute: “IIE’s mission is to help people …
Investor-Advisor Interview: Sara Wimmercranz
Sara Wimmercranz fills many business roles, but, of note, it was her role as a founder and entrepreneur that pushed her into working to bring investments to the undiscovered “gems” – the entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s problems in creative ways. As the founder and CEO of BackingMinds, Sara works to ensure that equity in funding emerges successful, and …
Marissa Fayer – HERHealthEQ
Marissa Fayer is the founder and CEO of HERHealthEQ – an organization that provides recycled medical equipment to marginalized areas of the world to improve women’s health. In this interview with Publisher, Mary Kurek, Marissa talks about how started HERHealthEQ and what the work entails. She shares stories on how she’s accomplishing this mission involving projects in countries like Vietnam, …
Abby Stern of HITLAB’s Women’s Health Tech Initiative on Assisting Femtech Growth
Abby Stern has been working with the Women’s Health Tech Initiative at HITLAB since the inception of the project and has provided leadership in seeing it through to current development. The mission is simply to provide support to femtech founders and leaders through education, fund challenges, research, data, and coaching. In this interview, Abby talks with Publisher, Mary Kurek, about …