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No One Would Tell: The Amy Carnevale Story

November 13, 2019February 2, 2021Elizabeth Endara
No One Would Tell: The Amy Carnevale Story
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Amy Carnevale was a fourteen year old girl. Those who knew her described her as sweet, kind, thoughtful, with an upbeat and positive attitude and the ability to see goodness in every person she encountered. Amy hoped to become a Read More

Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Cynthia

September 13, 2019November 4, 2019Elizabeth Endara
Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Cynthia
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Cynthia Sinclair is a survivor in every sense of the word. Not only has she overcome enormous odds herself, but she supports and fights for other survivors as well. She’s truly an inspiration.  Cynthia is a survivor of child abuse Read More

Live Your Dream Award Stories: Darcy

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019Elizabeth Endara
Live Your Dream Award Stories: Darcy
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Darcy Kay Eberle is the hardworking mother of five beautiful daughters. She had big dreams to finish college and get her degree, but she faced financial and personal setbacks that made her dreams feel a long way off. Darcy endured Read More

Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Heather

April 30, 2019August 19, 2019LiveYourDream.org
Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Heather
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November 15th. Heather remembers the exact day six years ago when she packed up everything she could fit into the car and left her abusive marriage. That first night, she and her children slept in a hotel, uncertain what would Read More

Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Rocy

April 29, 2019May 2, 2019LiveYourDream.org
Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Rocy
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Rocy’s dream is to finish her bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies, then obtain her teacher certification to teach high school Spanish. “I know from my own experience that learning another language is a big challenge. I moved to the USA Read More

Orenda: Using Art to Tell Women’s Stories & Inspire Action

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019Elizabeth Endara
Orenda: Using Art to Tell Women’s Stories & Inspire Action
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Edica Pacha is a multimedia artist whose latest project combines portrait photography, public art, storytelling, and activism. Through “Orenda”, she is creating platform for sharing women’s stories and empowering all of us to feel heard, validated and less alone. We Read More

Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Lauren

April 25, 2019April 26, 2019LiveYourDream.org
Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Lauren
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“This grant could literally change my life as I know it.” Since she was just 13 years old, Lauren has waitressed to help her family get by. Now as an adult, she takes care of her younger brother and her Read More

Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Noelle

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019LiveYourDream.org
Live Your Dream Awards Stories: Noelle
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After years of wrestling with depression and trauma from childhood sexual abuse, Noelle ended up on the streets like many unlucky young women. Just a teenager, she was exposed to many potentially dangerous situations, including one night when a man Read More

My Journey Into Women’s Rights

April 18, 2019February 2, 2021Elizabeth Endara
My Journey Into Women’s Rights
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Seeing the truth Born into an upper-class family in a third world country, I wouldn’t exactly say I witnessed blaring disparities in the ways women were treated in my society. Disparities were blaring – only I did not see them. Read More

Girl Power on the Frozen Tundra

April 10, 2019February 2, 2021Elizabeth Endara
Girl Power on the Frozen Tundra
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Vermont is a remote state that has just 630,000 people spread across little hamlets connected by Interstate 91. Nestled within the Green Mountains are several towns so tiny they can’t even afford to open their own high school. The top Read More

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