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SYDNEY LIEBES: TRAINER FOR THE MIND, BODY & POSITIVE SOUL
My name is Sydney. I live in West Hollywood, California and I’ve been personal training here for about 9 years. I started when I was in college because I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. I spoke to my orthopedic surgeon and he said that when you’re 18, you’re allowed to get certified to become a trainer and you can start working with patients in a clinical setting. That clinical setting can be the gym, eventually you can get a job at a physical therapy clinic and you’ll have something to talk about in your college interviews or your med school interviews. I thought it was a great idea, so as soon as I turned 18, for my birthday my mom got me the certification course. My mom bought me my first business cards when I was 12 years old. She’s always been advocating and she’s a huge feminist like, “Work first, education second,” and I obviously wanted both.
MARISSA HERSH: MILLENNIAL PHILANTHROPIST
“My day job is as a community manager for an organization called One for Democracy, which is a pledge that asks people to give one percent of their assets to democracy work. My night job is also in the philanthropy world – I work on personal and family philanthropy, and I volunteer with an organization called Resource Generation, which is a membership community of people 18-35 years old with wealth or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.”
KRISTIN SIMMONS: VISUAL ARTIST
“My name is Kristin Simmons. I’m a practicing visual artist, specializing in painting, printmaking, and mixed media. And my work surrounds itself with this question of appetites and this pleasure/pain paradox that we live in, in this modern society of ‘when is enough ever enough’ and learning what it means to exist as a millennial female consumer in this day and age.
MAUD ARNOLD: ON MINORITY MENTAL HEALTH
This week, as Minority Mental Health Month Awareness comes to a close, we featured Maud Arnold who shares with us how she seeks and prioritizes joy year round. Read or listen along below!
FAJR DELANE: HOWARD GRADUATE AND YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR
I just think that having a unique, diverse, and expansive global experience has also shaped one of my perspectives in life and having traveled the world so young helped me to understand that there’s just more than one area and more than one way of thinking. There are all these types of beautiful ways that we all can kind of co-exist.
AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR & ACTIVIST IAN MANUEL
This past year has been transformational for social justice. I interviewed my sister Selma, a sophomore in high school, about what activism means to her.
VAL ELEFANTE: COMMUNITY MANAGER AT LIPS AND FILMMAKER
“When you can be comfortable in a room, that’s one thing, but to truly be able to be your real self, to let your creative juices flow, to share your wild idea… it’s not just comfort. You’re not just comfortable. Like you have to feel safe enough to be open and authentically honest.”
DR. LIZ LETCHFORD: REHABILITATION SCIENTIST AND STRENGTH THERAPY SPECIALIST
I am a PhD in kinesiology and rehabilitation science. I am also a clinician, with a background in sports medicine, so I work one-on-one with individuals, and I help them get out of pain and understand their body better.
DRAKE HACKNEY: PHOTOGRAPHER AND VISUAL STORYTELLER
This week I featured Drake Hackney, photographer and visual storyteller, whose incredible work has captured stunning images, including those of our very own Pavé The Way models! Read below about his passion for photography, and how he continues to shape his craft!