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Tamara Westfall
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Name: Tamara Westfall
Email: LAH@candidtam.com
Site: http://www.candidtam.com
About: Graduating from the Journalism Program at Columbia College Chicago on a pile of student loans and grants, Tamara Westfall intended to be a war photographer but ended up working as a Community Affairs Producer for WCIU 26, an Investigative Researcher at the Better Government Association and is currently freelancing as an Investigative Writer/Researcher in social, political, and human interests.
In the last decade Tamara worked on Emmy Nominated Cultural Documentary, Cambio De Colores, was honored by the Tribune Internship Award for outstanding investigative research, graduated with Honors and on the Dean's List from Columbia, worked on a number of Emmy Nominated programs at WCIU 26, worked on televised coverage for the 2008 Presidential Election, and has organized, volunteered for and managed several successful high publicity productions and events.
Tamara spent her childhood in flux growing up as a military brat. She's lived through 13-years of domestic violence, is a recovering foul-mouthed misanthrope, and is the first girl in her family history to complete college. She thrives on critical thinking, problem research, and exploring intolerance. She also enjoys events coordination, volunteerism, painting, and riding her bicycle in her new home town of Los Angeles.See Authors Posts (4) ⋅ June 27, 2011
⋅ 2 commentsBryon and Julie Widner – “Explaining Hate” Interview by – Tamara Westfall June 26th, 2011 “I [then] realized that I had more in common with my “Enemy” than I did with those I called brother for years.” [...]
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Arno Michaels
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Name: Arno Michaels
Email: arno@lifeafterhate.org
Site: http://www.lifeafterhate.org
About: Currently majoring in Sport & Rec and Perpetual Major-Changing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Enjoys climbing things and warm saltwater. Cold saltwater is kinda nice too.See Authors Posts (47) ⋅ January 18, 2011
⋅ 4 commentsA few months ago, my mom forwarded a Powerpoint presentation made up of slide after slide of drawings and paintings. Landscapes, architecture, dogs, people… it wasn’t the most stunning artwork I’d ever seen (my mom is the most amazing artist ever), but there was an undeniable humanity coursing through it. You could feel the artist’s [...]
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Terry Hoffman-Vincevineus
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Name: Terry Hoffman-Vincevineus
Email: tvince512@hotmail.com
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About: Terry resides in SE Wisconsin with her husband Phil, a mutt named Georgia, and 3 crazy cats named Layla, Nova, and Starbrite. She graduated from Random Lake high school in 2001 and then obtained a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Communications in 2005 from UW-Milwaukee. She owns a photography business which she runs out of her home. Her goal in life is to eventually have children, see all 50 states, step foot on every continent, and meet an American president.See Authors Posts (7) ⋅ January 17, 2011
⋅ Post a commentRosa sat near the middle of the bus, right behind the seats that were reserved for whites only. Soon enough, all of the seats on the bus were filled. When a white man boarded, the driver insisted that Rosa stand to make room for him. Rosa quietly refused to give up her seat and would not move.
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Beverly Kipp
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Name: Beverly Kipp
Email: bkipp@frontiernet.net
Site: http://beverlykippquesthouse.blogspot.com/
About: Words. As daughter, mother, friend, nurse and lay minister, Beverly Kipp uses words to comfort, encourage, nurture and nag. She has shouted, whispered, wielded and sung them. Only when widow and “Grandma Bevy” were added to her titles did she finally take the advice of others and begin to write her words down. She then added Writer and Inspirational Speaker to the list of hats she wears. Writing adds depth to her words, wonder to her days and joy to her heart. She is trained and authorized to offer an online guided writing process called Radmacher Focus Phrase™. As moderator, she finds a special and unique delight in reading YOUR words. Join her. Write. Your life will be richer if you do. It really will. You can read more of her words at http://beverlykippquesthouse.blogspot.com/See Authors Posts (1) ⋅ December 23, 2010
⋅ 3 commentsI was raised a Christian and I have continued to practice and study and live my life as a Christian all sixty of my years. I am a Christian because I want to be and in reading Angie’s email, I realized, for the first time, that I am a Christian because I choose it daily. I marveled that she sees that in me. The choosing, I mean.
At night, Rangel hits the streets on his own, sometimes to find a particular child, but just as often to cruise rougher parts of town, checking on kids he knows and making himself available to anyone needing help. During the day, he steps into classrooms to deliver life lessons.
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Arno MichaelscloseAuthor: Arno Michaels
Name: Arno Michaels
Email: arno@lifeafterhate.org
Site: http://www.lifeafterhate.org
About: Currently majoring in Sport & Rec and Perpetual Major-Changing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Enjoys climbing things and warm saltwater. Cold saltwater is kinda nice too.See Authors Posts (47) ⋅ September 18, 2010
⋅ 2 commentsNot too long ago, I had the honor of engaging in a 2 ½-hour conversation with a man I consider a hero: TJ Leyden. TJ left the white power movement during the mid-nineties as I did, after spending many years recruiting kids to become violent racists. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for [...]
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Theresa Nickol
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Name: Theresa Nickol
Email: hoodie1976@yahoo.com
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About: My activities at the moment are both business and pleasure depending on the acquaintance. I am a free-lance artist specializing in Murals, Portraits and Abstract Art. I am also working on many articles that will hopefully become a compilation of my life lessons and one day become a self-help read for others. I currently am finishing up my Associates Degree in Psychology through on-line courses. I have the ambition to complete this degree within the next year, if my schedule permits being a full-time employee and mother.
My goal in life is to be heard from my travels of misfortune. To help others who are just as lost as I once was in my path to self realization. I have been told I can not only relate well to others, but offer up very realistic advice to those who are willing to listen. I also aspire to never spoil my children, but to love them. To guide them through their failures and cherish their accomplishments no matter the size. And whomever they choose to be in life, always be the driving force that encourages them to be inspirational human beings that remain true to themselves.
My philosophy in life is: “We Are What Have Learned, Nothing More and Nothing Less. To get better as we get older and to love ourselves as we do our own children. Without this mentality you will settle for anything and expect nothing. It is only with the help of those who know the worst of you and love you regardless that you learn to love yourself. We cannot conquer world peace, but we can bring peace to the world within ourselves."See Authors Posts (6) ⋅ August 18, 2010
⋅ One commentTo trust again is very crippling, almost paralyzing in some ways. The biggest door to open is the emotional one we will not open once we are broken. To reverse back to infancy or a stage of pure innocence does not happen no matter how many therapy sessions we attend or self-help books we buy. [...]
TJ: The old Aryan lie, “The Zionist Occupational Government put me in prison!” Well maybe it’s the fact that you went out there and beat that 90 year old homeless man.
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Angie Aker
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Name: Angie Aker
Email: angieaker@yahoo.com
Site: http://www.angieaker.com
About: Angie Aker is a mother, daughter, sister, cousin, friend and entrepreneur. She attended Concordia University, WI for Business Management and Communications. Angie relinquished her hard-won rung on the corporate ladder to follow her passion of counseling others to be their best, healthiest selves and to indulge in her compulsion to write about truths as she finds them. Originally hailing from Kenosha, WI, Angie now resides in upstate New York with her children Axel and Gigi.See Authors Posts (24) ⋅ July 18, 2010
⋅ 3 comments1400, North American continent For centuries, the migration of indigenous peoples in the continents of North and South America happened in a natural, borderless fashion. If food became scarce, a tribe would leave behind the encampment and seek out the next place in which to survive. There was a natural order to this, a balance [...]
Not too long ago, I had the honor of engaging in a 2 ½-hour conversation with a man I consider a hero: TJ Leyden. TJ left the white power movement during the mid-nineties as I did, after spending many years recruiting kids to become violent racists. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for [...]
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