Miriam Delaney Heard - Attorney, Legal Aid of North Carolina, Greensboro & Author
September 23rd, 2010
Thursday, 7-9 pm.
Miriam Delaney Heard was raised in LaGrange, Georgia. For the last 19 years, she has been lucky enough to be married to her best friend. She and her husband have a fifteen-year-old daughter. Soon after moving to North Carolina, serendipity led Miriam to Salem College’s Continuing Studies program where she completed her B.A. in English with a Minor in Creative Writing in 2006.
Miriam received her J.D. from Elon University School of Law in 2009 as a member of the charter class. Even while attending, she continued writing and was awarded impressive scholarships that helped her with her law school tuition. She is now a staff attorney at Legal Aid of N.C., Inc., a statewide non-profit law firm that provides free legal services to low-income North Carolinians.
When she is not working in her vocation, Miriam devotes time to her family and to her avocation – creative writing.
All are invited to hear Miriam speak on her own journey in our continuing series, "Making One's Life". To RSVP to this event, please click here.
Ena Stackhouse
June 17th, 2010
Who would have thought that a childhood spent in Winston-Salem would lead eventually to the “wilds” of Africa where our June speaker leads her own Safaris, counts her Kenyan neighbors as her friends, and explores worlds that many of us only dream about. In keeping with the theme of our SisterLynk Series: “Making One’s Life,” Ena Stackhouse has made her life in a unique and exciting way.
Her Safari company, Enaja Safaris and Tours is a venture born from love. Ena Stackhouse had traveled the world and lived in Europe, but it was that first trip to Africa that changed her life. The people, the countryside, and the animals enticed her to visit time and again. Soon she brought friends and family along to experience the splendor of Africa, and in the process she built a network of relationships through her many trips to East Africa and beyond. Now her safaris even take her travelers to such faraway places as Papua New Guinea, where she will be going in November.
It is not travel alone that keeps Ena going back to Africa; it is also the people. Through her business, Ena has helped several Kenyans start their own small businesses and part of all of her safari profits has gone toward helping support a clinic, two schools, and an orphanage in Africa.
Ruth Anderson
May 20th, 2010
Ruth Anderson began her professional/academic career as a professor of communication, tenured at NC State. She left there to put into corporate practice what she had learned and taught at the university. Along the way, she made a hairpin turn. Thus, the title of her new book Hairpin Turn: Trusting Your Heart's Direction in Leadership and Life.
When Ruth started her journey as a corporate vice president, she wore her hair in a tight bun. Her look matched what she thought should be her corporate stance. Along the way, the hairpins began to slip out and she took a turn in how she viewed the idea of leadership. She has written about that turn. Ruth shared both her compelling story and how she proposes that others can make the same kind of transformational shift she did no matter a woman’s age or stage.
For the past eight years, Ruth has been executive director of a non-profit -
The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro. There, she leads in how to engage one’s whole, authentic self.
Emily Herring Wilson
April 15th, 2010
Emily's passion is connecting with other women through friendship, organizations, reading and writing.
She believes that each life has stories worth telling, and her commitment is to help right the wrongs of history by writing about women who have been excluded.
In researching mostly private "ordinary lives" she discovers extraordinary achievements, not by the world's standards perhaps but by human standards in which "happiness" may be only a moment of being. In writing about others, she has learned to tell her own story. She believes in women helping women.
In a free-ranging conversation, Emily talked about women she has known, books she has written, and ways in which each of us might tell our own stories.
Emily is author of HOPE AND DIGNITY: OLDER BLACK WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, co-author with Margaret Supplee Smith of NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN; MAKING HISTORY, and author of three books about southern gardener, Elizabeth Lawrence, who said, "I want you to know how much I have loved life and how necessary it was just the way I played it."
Emily's writing has been praised by, among others, columnist for the New York Times - Verlyn Klinkenborg. Her books are loved by writers, readers and book reviewers, alike.
Diana Greene
March 18th, 2010
"My creed is wonder." - Ada Alden
Writer, photographer, and teacher Diana Greene described how living life with a sense of wonder means never waiting for someone to open the door for you. Timidity and fear too often hold women back from living life fully. Diana has trained her ear to listen to the inner voice that says, "Go ahead, open the door."
For more information on Diana's work, please visit her website -
www.dianagreene.com
Photography Exhibition In Support of 'The Nyanya Project'
Held on December 3rd, 2009
Blessings
823 Reynolda Rd
Winston-Salem, NC
Sisterlynk proudly champions the causes of women in our community making a difference!
Founder of The Nyanya Project, Mary Martin Niepold, was recently named a 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow, an honor for social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society’s biggest challenges.
If you were not able to attend, please consider an online donation in support of this amazing effort to assist African grandmothers caring for their grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. The Nyanya Project provides work training skills to teach the grandmothers sustainable income. Started in 2007, there are now programs in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, helping more than 140 grandmothers.
For more information, visit www.nyanyaproject.org .
We celebrate women who are empowering themselves and achieving their dreams and are committed to the same for women across the Triad, the country, the world.
Last year, the group set a goal to listen to and converse with women in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad who are achieving important work for the betterment of all of us. Our first such conversation this past year was with Mary Martin Niepold, who boldly responded to the plight of grandmothers who must raise their orphaned grandchildren as a result of the devastating epidemic of AIDS in Africa. See www.nyanyaproject.org for more information.
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