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Tina Stull (Mom/Cancer Survivor/Drag Racer) |
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 In 1998, Stull went to the Frank Hawley Drag Racing School in Pomona, Calif., but didn't start drag racing until 2002 after being diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
"In 2002, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told I had three years to live"
"I had to make some decisions about what I wanted to do with the time I had left. I decided that racing was one of the things I had been putting on the back burner but something I really wanted to do."
When Stull went back to the doctor they told her, "You don't have cancer, we can't find it; we don't know how to explain the pathology reports, so just go home."
During the time Tina thought she was dying, prayer became a major part of her life, because she felt she had no other options. "I made all my decisions based off my prayers. When I found out I was going to live I thought, why should my decisions be any different"
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Geena Davis: In Charge Of Her Own Destiny |
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Susan notes: amazing actress, cool interview with Pat Mitchell, President of The Paley Center. Davis talks about the pauctiy of interesting roles for women in movies; more about that at this link: EPIC
Movies EPIC FAIL Gender Parity Test.
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki (Environmental Activist) |
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 Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 30 November 1979 in Vancouver,
Canada)
is an environmental activist, speaker, television
host and author.
She has spoken around the world about environmental
issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in
mind, and take individual responsibility.
(See viral video: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes, made when she 12, below.)
While attending Lord Tennyson Elementary School
in French Immersion, at the age of nine, she founded the Environmental
Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning
and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues.
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Lisa Shannon (Women’s Rights Activist / Author) |
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 Lisa Shannon founded the first national grassroots effort to raise awareness and funds for women in the DR Congo through her project Run for Congo Women.
They have sponsored more than a thousand war-affected Congolese women through Women for Women International. These women are raising more than 5000 children.
She traveled solo into Eastern Congo’s South Kivu province for five and half weeks in January- February 2007, and again in May 2008. Prior to Lisa’s travels through Congo, was named a “2006 Hero of Running” by Runner’s World Magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine wrote, “Lisa Shannon read our report—and started a movement.”
Lisa presently serves as an ambassador for Women for Women International. She previously owned a photography production company, where she served as art director and producer.
She lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. A Thousand Sisters is her first book.
Related links:
A Thousand Sisters
Lisa Shannon’s Job Is To “Show Up For Congo”
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Melanie Hetfield (Professional Tweeter / Mother) |
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Susan notes: as a wannabe geek and social media neophyte, I often feel lost and incompetent – there’s SO much to know! When that happens somebody eventually takes me under their wing and helps me move forward. Melanie Hetfield, a Professional Tweeter (yep, there is such a thing), kindly shared a few tips when I needed them most. When I asked her for a profile I could post on AWR, she modeled hers after the one that recently appeared about me and other Dubai Twitterati in The National.
 @melaniejane88
Mum of 3, divorced twice, living in Margate, England. Self-employed for four years. Home educator.
Twitter Bio: Professional Tweeter for Companies, Web Designer, Home Educator & best of all mum of three children. Live by the seaside. Love Life! Love Twitter :) @melaniejane88
Following: 22,437
Followers: 21,647
Number of Tweets: 13,775 (most of my chats happen by Direct Message).
Listed: 829
Started Tweeting: Feb 2009
Sample tweet: Just Keep Smiling, it will help the day through. Here is a list of Active followers:
http://tweepml.org/active-followers-1/
Life has been a fight since my teenage years onwards, failing health has always been in the way of many things I wanted to achieve. I hit rock bottom in 2006 having failed with my second marriage and really ill with Lupus. Determined to keep things together even though in a wheelchair at that time, I focused on my health and my children, and I started to learn web design.
We moved to the seaside, a good, healthy move, and I went back to college for a year, but health got in the way there, so I continued to teach myself.
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Regina Yau (Activist / Communicator) |
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 Regina Yau is a global citizen who synergises Western liberalism with Asian pragmatism and her own social conscience.
The hallmark of Regina’s working style is her blend of inventive creativity, strategic thinking, practical execution, and sheer bloody-mindedness at getting the job done.
All Regina’s pro bono non-profit projects, including The Pixel Project, are designed to hit a triple ‘bottomline’ of raising funds, raising awareness and raising volunteer manpower for causes.
Prior to The Pixel Project , she founded and organised the Time-and-Fund raising Charity Bachelor Auction (currently on hiatus) which raised an average of RM63,000 nett per year for Breast Cancer, 6-month publicity runs and over 200 hours of community service.
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Soraya Darabi (Internet RockStar) |
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 If influence can be measured in Twitter followers, Soraya Darabi's is
certainly on the rise. The 26-year-old spearheaded The New York Times'
push into social-media marketing.
Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
credits Darabi with his impressive count of Twitter followers and
Facebook friends. And after winning the Gray Lady a top prize at the INMA awards
in 2009, Darabi recently made the cover of Fast Company's 100 Most
Creative People in business, falling between the likes of Lada Gaga
(No. 1) and Andrey Ternovskiy (No. 100), the teen founder of
Chatroulette.
Darabi left the Times in late 2009 to become product lead
at drop.io, a real-time online project-sharing, collaboration, and
presentation service. Darabi graduated from Georgetown in 2005 with a
degree in English literature, but says she'd "give anything to go back
to college and double major in computer science." "Women are simply not
taught to think technology and programming are cool and worth exploring
until it may be too late," she says.
So how does this savvy non-engineer
get a leg up in the Internet world? By harnessing the power of her
social network, of course. "It's all a game of online telephone, and I'm
tapped into a network that probably hears the message first."
Click here for the full story:
By Joyce C. Tang
The Daily Beast
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