BlogHer - Announcing the BlogHer '09 International Activist BlogHer Scholarship Winners! - Comments

Thanks Krystyn

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:40:16 -0500

I know that all of us in the room felt the same way!

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Best panel in the four conferences I've attended

squaregirl — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:35:45 -0500

I just wanted to express my opinion that was the best panel by far, and I sincerely hope we can bring more international women to share their stories next year!

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Congrats to all!

Mir Kamin — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:18:13 -0500

I'm looking forward to meeting these fabulous ladies in Chicago!

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Great catch!

jes — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:02 -0500

The link to Pilirani's blog has been corrected. Thank you!

Jes Ferris
Find me at BlogHer.com and Chirky.com

Can't wait

Virginia DeBolt — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:45:13 -0500

to meet these women and hear more about what they are doing. This is a great scholarship program from BlogHer!

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE
Web Teacher
First 50 Words

Very exciting!

debontherocks — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:08:33 -0500

Congratulations and welcome to Toyin, Pilirani, Esra'a, Cristina and Annie!

Deb
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This is terrific

Amy In Ohio — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:49:59 -0500

So excited to see this wonderful addition to Blogher - can't wait to meet these women. For all our differences globally, we're the same bloggally!! LOL

Now, if we could get Michelle Obama to head up the welcoming committee, eh?

Elisa - you guys rock!

This is one of BlogHer's ...

Alanna Kellogg — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:49:00 -0500

... most amazing moments. Congratulations to the winners -- and to those who will 'win' by attending the same conference with them.

Alanna Kellogg
Kitchen Parade &
A Veggie Venture

CONGRATS!!

Houseonahill — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:33:13 -0500

SO excited to meet and greet all of you

What an accomplishment ~

Houseonahill

www.Houseonahillorg.blogspot.com

Congratulations!

Liz Henry — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:13:00 -0500

Congrats to all and I will be so happy to meet you at the conference in Chicago!

I heard Cristina speak at Global Voices Summit and have seen some of her work from Rising Voices podcasts and work on Voces Bolivianas.

A note, the link to Pilirani's blog isn't working, but you can find her writing here,

http://www.thewip.net/contributors/pilirani_semubanda.html

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Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America

Announcing the BlogHer '09 International Activist BlogHer Scholarship Winners!

Elisa Camahort — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:36:13 -0500

Back in December we announced the BlogHer '09 International Activist BlogHer scholarship program and invited you to submit yourself or your favorite international activist BlogHer for consideration for this scholarship.

Dozens of submissions rolled in, and our amazing Scholarship Selection Committee (Julie Godar, Jenifer Scharpen, Denise Tanton, Kim Pearson, Georgia Popplewell and Nelly Yusupova) helped us narrow it down to five scholarship winners. We were looking for sites that were, in fact, bloggy, and for those that had a specific activist intent. The five selections certainly do not represent every nominee that garnered votes from our committee...there were many, many worthy submissions. But they do represent those submissions that garnered the most votes and support from the committee.

While the selection was made almost three months ago, it has taken until today for all five to get their visas approved for travel to the conference, so I am happy to introduce you now to our BlogHer '09 International Activist Blogger Scholarship Recipients!

Annie Zaidi, India, publisher at http://www.anniezaidi.com

Blog Mission: The self-stated mission of this blog is "to use writing to force people to rethink positions or examine established ideas, and to break stereotypes about certain communities or groups based on gender, religion or race. It takes, by and large, a non-judgmental stance on most issues, and it seeks to raise questions as part of a genuine attempt at understanding human society and its structures. This is a crucial aspect of journalism, but an aspect that is increasingly overshadowed by the necessity of creating drama around each piece of news, and the mad scramble for exclusivity and one-upmanship between media organisations."

Cristina Quisbert, Bolivia, publisher at http://boliviaon.blogspot.com

Blog Mission: According to Cristina's nominator: "The mission of this blog is to strive to show indigenous communities as a source of pride. There are a lot of misconceptions about indigenous people, and Cristina shows a more personal side and uses her own voice to represent other members of indigenous communities in the Bolivian Altiplano. Cristina is a bridge blogger, allowing fellow Bolivians who may not identify themselves as a member of an indgenous community, to interact and learn about indigenous communities in another region of the country. By also writing a blog in English, she is able to reach a much wider audience and show another side of life in El Alto, Bolivia."

~~Esra'a Al Shafei, Bahrain~~, publisher at www.mideastyouth.com

UPDATE 05/14/09: We are sorry to report that Esra'a will be unable to attend this year after all. No need to worry about her: it is due to another wonderful opportunity that has arisen for Esra'a. Of course, we are disappointed, but we hope perhaps she can come next year instead. In the meantime, please do check out her work.

Pilirani Semu-Banda, Malawi, publisher at http://pilirani.blogspot.com

Blog Mission: According to Pilirani's nominator, this blog's mission is: "To bring awareness and change to Malawi's social and economical problems. Some development projects have been kick-started based on stories published on the blog, including the improvement of monitoring programs to get rid of child labour in the tobacco industry and an increase of treatment to women suffering from fistula."

Toyin Ajao-Dawodu, Nigeria, publisher at http://genderandme.blogspot.com

Blog Mission: The self-stated mission of this blog is "To provoke more thorough examination and investigation of gender and equality issues. She also writes a weekly series highlighting other women around the globe who are committed to helping women."

We are proud to bring each of these women to BlogHer '09 and to provide a forum for them to share their work during the conference.

We are convinced that we can all learn practical advice about affecting social change via blog from our scholarship winners...and we can all walk away inspired by their courage, their perseverance, and their accomplishments!

Congratulations Annie, Cristina, Esra'a, Pilirani and Toyin!

Elisa
on behalf of Elisa, Jory and Lisa, BlogHer Co-founders