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About Me

ESL Teacher, Japan
Elementary School Teacher, U.S. and Colombia (bilingual English/Spanish)
Studies in Anthropology, Latin American Literature, Spanish, Education

Location:
United States, Bothell, WA
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Cultural Studies, Spanish, Brain-based learning & teaching, education
I am:
Activist, Atheist, Concerned citizen, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Explorer, Student, Writer/Editor
Languages:
English, Spanish
Universities:
Univ of Texas at Austin, Univ of Washington at Seattle
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I'm passionate about

Sustainable development, including microloans and education including for girls and women, environmentalism, culture and travel, brain-based educational practices, healing ourselves and the planet

An idea worth spreading

We all need more knowledge of our own brains. A crucial example--we are the most intelligent species to walk the Earth, but we are bringing about our--and the planet's--demise. The brain that we have evolved is not working in the current environment we've created. Can we come to understand and so compensate for our weaknesses? Can we do so fast enough to save ourselves and those at our mercy?

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Any of the above, or any of the million things tangentially related. Talk to me about what you are passionate about.

People don't know that I'm good at

Working with animals. Outdoor activities.

My TED Story

I was just a TED video junkie until I found out I could be a translator. Now I can have even more fun!

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    A reply on Talk: Jacqueline Novogratz invests in Africa's own solutions

    Aug 17 2009: Decreasing population in important, but note that people have less children as soon as their economic situation is more stable. This happens country wide when growth is widespread, or you can see it just in the more moneyed classes within poor countries that don't have wider-spread economic improvement. This happens even within,e.g., Catholic societies that you would have thought had other reasons for overpopulation. The key to population decrease seems to be economic stability. The statistics don't tell us why, but I'm guessing it has something to do with feeling more assured of one's own and one's children's survival making it make sense to have fewer kids and invest more in those offspring than to frantically reproduce. It's quite Darwinian, really. And the more people we can lift out of survival mode into a way of living that is adequate to their needs and is sustainable, well the better for all people and for the planet. And population growth will cease to be a problem.

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