In Ghana, where celebrity culture rules the zeitgeist, actress and TV personality Joselyn Dumas’s off-camera work arguably warrants more credit than her time on the screen. As the founder of her namesake Joselyn Canfor-Dumas Foundation, she works to advance children’s rights and tackle health and environmental challenges pervading her country, funding aid efforts ranging from […]
There are few rooms in the world in which Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim wouldn’t make a statement. She often comes wrapped in the vibrant fabrics of her home country Chad, wrists and ears adorned with intricately beaded jewelry representative of her Mbororo pastoralist community. And when she speaks, she weaves lessons learned from her ancestors about […]
The path of Janene Yazzie in any given year does not follow any one direction. She could be leading teach-ins in the Southwest of the U.S. to educate Native Americans about the impacts of an oil spill on their watershed. She could be speaking at the United Nations about the wills and ways of Mother […]
