Deborah was honored as one of “Seven Who Catalyze Culture”at the Gala Benefit Dinner Honoring 21 Leaders for 21st Century 2012 in New York City on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012. Eve Ensler, Founder & Artistic Director V-Day, introduced Deborah as co-producer of the award-winning documentary, ...
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Life Moments for Women: 100+ Extraordinary Women Share Turning Points in Their Lives
Life Moments for Women: 100+ Extraordinary Women Share Turning Points in Their Lives, is treasury of life-altering experiences offering a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of 108 notable California women. Each of these extraordinary women shares one special moment that changed her in ...
Deborah Santana’s Special Guest Blog About SWAN Day Kenya
As part of our ongoing efforts to build more connections among SWAN organizers worldwide, WomenArts arranged for U.S. author/activist Deborah Santana to meet with the SWAN Day Kenya organizers in Nairobi. cut
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Dear Daraja friends and supporters,
I leave for Kenya in two weeks to visit the Daraja Academy. It has been two years since I stepped onto the rich red soil of the secondary school campus and much has changed. The first girls I met, whose faces you saw in the ...
Let’s Occupy with Our Love and Our Light
We occupy this planet with our energies, our bodies, our thoughts, and our actions. I have a personal consciousness, and with every sentient being, there is a collective consciousness. We are all interconnected. What does it mean to occupy anything? Webster’s defines occupy: to engage ...
Writing is about observing
At a writing retreat with Natalie Goldberg, my duties were: Monday, snuff candles; Tuesday afternoon, sweep porch; Thursday morning, sweep zendo. I was in Taos, New Mexico to write, yet the teacher, a longtime student of Zen Buddhism, was also teaching her students to be ...
Meet the Divine in Your Life
“If you want to meet the divine in your life, you have to expose your heart.” I copied Aqeela Sherrills’ words in my journal five years ago and they speak to me just as profoundly today. I want to meet the essence of God, to ...
International Women's Day
March 8th, 2011 marks the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. Everyone can celebrate the amazing women who have shaped us, who have cared for our world, and who work with compassion and power for our future. I have many sheroes of international fame and of ...
Belva Davis and Deborah Santana in Conversation
Journalist Belva Davis on her memoir, "Never in My Wildest Dreams; A Black Woman's Life in Journalism" in conversation with author/philanthropist Deborah Santana at Strand Bookstore in NYC on February 23, 2011. With Farai Chideya and Christina Foxley.
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Philanthropic Women Helping Women
March is Women’s History Month, which seems like the perfect time to highlight leading women who put their money behind women's causes. With 61% of wealth now in the hands of women, and the majority of the world’s poor being women, it makes sense that ...
