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FWN Member Spotlight: Maria Beebe (Global FWN100™ '12)

Maria Beebe (FWN VP Special Interests Groups and Projects) has accomplishments all over the world. She has over twenty-five years experience in higher education and sustainable development. She recently returned from Afghanistan as a Sr. ICT Adviser in Education. She served as Washington State University Chief of Party for a USAID-funded $12 million Afghan eQuality Alliances that forged partnerships with U.S. universities and established computer centers at Afghan universities.

She has a Master of Arts in Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University.  Her research interests include critical discourse analysis, women’s leadership and information and communication technologies (ICT) for development. Her accomplishments include: Recommendations on the use of ICTs to expand the global outreach at Portland State University; development of an e-learning management system; curriculum on ICT policy and regulation in Africa and the Masters in public policy and administration in Afghanistan, a policy paper on E-education in Basic and Further Education in South Africa and a concept paper on ICTs for education in Ethiopia. Maria co-edited a book entitled AfricaDotEdu. 

Maria shares lessons learned through reflection on action and papers at international conferences. She participated in the Afghanistan Country Workshop and presented a paper on MOOCs and m-learning at the World Summit on Information Society 2013. She launched Global Networks to provide professional development services for global engagement. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the FWN Filipina Global Leadership book to be launched at the summit in October.

Filipina Domestic Helper Photography is Making Waves

Xyza Cruz Bacani, a domestic helper in Hong Kong, has been featured for her photography in theNew York Times andVogue Itlalia. Her next project is to photograph abuse of domestic workers in Hong Kong.  Read more

Healthy Babies Act Update

The Healthy Babies Act (AB1579) is set for court ruling onAug 15. Help bring more attention the act by sharing this op-ed piece by the SF Examiner via social networks. Read more