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Employee Training Manager

Frances McNeal Tell us about your work---what do you do? I manage a team of facilitators (professional trainers) who provide classroom and "technology" based…

Fernand Lamaze

The namesake of the Lamaze Method, Dr. Fernand Lamaze was a French obstetrician who championed the idea of painless childbirth. Based on ideas he had developed after visiting the U.S. S. R. and…

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is the Internet entrepreneur who led the creation of the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales worked as a research director for Chicago Options Associates before becoming a…

Amelia Earhart

Aviation legend Amelia Earhart is most famous for the mysterious circumstances of her death: she disappeared in 1937 somewhere in the South Pacific, near the end of an attempted round-the-world…

Suicide Prevention Week

The Question: A non-profit organization with which I am involved is trying to increase awareness of teen depression and suicide prevention. We have learned that there is a…

Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush is the older of the two twin daughters of former U.S. president George W. Bush and his wife Laura. She is named for her grandmother, the former First Lady, Barbara Pierce Bush. Barbara…

Katie Couric

Katie Couric is the TV host and journalist who anchored The CBS Evening News from 2006-11. She previously was the host of the NBC morning program The Today Show from 1991 through 2006. Katie Couric…

Frank Slocum Biography

Frank SlocumAge: 71 former major league baseball executive and award-winning television writer who was the first and only executive director of the Baseball Assistance Team, a non-profit…

Sam Adams

When Sam Adams was elected mayor of Portland, Oregon in 2008, he made history as the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. Originally from Montana, Adams grew up mostly in Oregon, in Newport…

Tarana Burke

Activist Tarana Burke is credited with starting the Me Too movement in 2006, which a decade later became a worldwide social crusade expressing the magnitude of sexual assault as well as empathy for…