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Associate Program Coordinator for I Am Syria Campaign: www.iamsyria.org

You can usually find me curled up with a good book and a glass of wine.

I am a country girl with big world dreams.

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At the #beach with the #horses! Loving life. (Taken with Instagram)

At the #beach with the #horses! Loving life. (Taken with Instagram)

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So I’ve been MIA for the last two weeks but the last two weeks have been kick-ass.

See, I’ve been involved in this program, the Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies for the past few years. Two years as a student and the last three as an intern.

Let me tell you it changed my life and continues to change my life every summer.

We talk about everything from the Holocaust to Darfur to Syria and every other current issue you can imagine.

And we get some kick-ass people to come in and speak with our students.

  • Sophia Veffer - local Holocaust survivor from Amsterdam
  • the amazing TJ and two of his brothers from Freedom House
  • Professor David Crane - Founding Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone
  • Mark Hanis - co-founder of 1-800-GENOCIDE
  • Dr. Allida Black - an expert on Eleanor Roosevelt, activist, and one amazingly kick-ass woman
  • Myo Thant - local Burmese refugee, spent 18 months under house arrest with The Lady (Aung San Suu Kyi)
  • Law Eh Soe - local Burmese refugee, photojournalist, documented the Saffron Revolution in Burma
  • Jamel Bettaieb - leader in the Tunisian teacher’s union, initiator of the Tunisian protests that led to the Arab Spring

We are also involved in a new world-wide movement called IAmSyria. Check out our Facebook and website. The website will be online tomorrow, hopefully.

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fuckyeahbuffalony: scienceisrad:     When EA Sports releases its NHL 12 video game Tuesday, you can choose to play as a 90-pound 14-year-old girl from Buffalo. Local girl Lexi Peters was sick of having to play as a man in the popular hockey video game series, she told Canada’s the Globe and Mail. Even worse, the left-winger got to sit back and watch her little brother create a character that looked exactly like him. She’d tried to create a character with her features, but the only long-hair option was the scruffy “hockey hair” look. Fed up, she took her complaint public, sending a letter to EA Sports that reads: “It is unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world, many of them who play and enjoy your game. I have created a character of myself, except I have to be represented by a male and that’s not fun.” “Lexi’s letter was a wake-up call,” David Littman, the lead producer of the video game, told the Globe and Mail. “Here’s a growing audience playing our NHL game and we hadn’t done anything to capture them.” Littman not only worked some magic to have women added to the game, but he made Peters a default player in the game. And the teen—who’s played hockey for four years now—is right at home on the ice with the rest of the guys.

fuckyeahbuffalony:

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When EA Sports releases its NHL 12 video game Tuesday, you can choose to play as a 90-pound 14-year-old girl from Buffalo.

Local girl Lexi Peters was sick of having to play as a man in the popular hockey video game series, she told Canada’s the Globe and Mail. Even worse, the left-winger got to sit back and watch her little brother create a character that looked exactly like him. She’d tried to create a character with her features, but the only long-hair option was the scruffy “hockey hair” look. Fed up, she took her complaint public, sending a letter to EA Sports that reads:

“It is unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world, many of them who play and enjoy your game. I have created a character of myself, except I have to be represented by a male and that’s not fun.”

“Lexi’s letter was a wake-up call,” David Littman, the lead producer of the video game, told the Globe and Mail. “Here’s a growing audience playing our NHL game and we hadn’t done anything to capture them.”

Littman not only worked some magic to have women added to the game, but he made Peters a default player in the game. And the teen—who’s played hockey for four years now—is right at home on the ice with the rest of the guys.

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