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MyDiyMFA Thesis Presentation By Rosa Alemán   (Workshop shared on October 11, 2018, with a global cohort of young professionals at the Clubhouse Network Alumni Summit in Roxbury, Ma.)   Introduction: This presentation is called Activate Your Passion: A Learner’s Journey, and it is the thesis overview for a 3-year self-directed higher learning project titled...

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Mercedes Vargas on Self Love and Self Care Mercedes is a Holistic Chef and Integrative Health Coach. She helps her clients make empowered food choices and teaches them to simplify their cooking routines to make delicious, nutrient-dense chef-approved meals at home. Mercedes supports her clients by coaching them to improve their overall health and wellness...

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Deeply inspired by the young Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. Heard her poem and reached into the Rockshelf Studio archives for a poem I wrote and performed for my students in 2008. Once upon a time, I was a youth poet (age 15) exploring performance poetry in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, trying desperately to find my voice. It is...

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The Bold Hour Podcast episode one is titled "You Are Not A Gadget," named in honor of #JaronLanier's book, the first #BoldBook in this series

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In this brief podcast segment, I reflect on the why of the Bold Hour podcast. After years of talking myself out of launching this platform, I managed to drill down on the reasons why this project would be a worthwhile effort. Before I begin publishing episodes of the podcast, I first wanted to set the...

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Bold Hour Article by Rosa Alemán The time to gently begin incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices across businesses, schools and organizations has long passed. Immediate action is now essential. Unfortunately, a lot of leaders slept on their responsibilities to activate these practices in a more strategic way, back when there was still ample time to plan...

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The manuscript for La Isla de Esperanza was the result of 100+ hours spent reading and writing @RockshelfStudio, work that formed the entry point to what I had hoped would become my first novel, but which in truth (aside from a very rough first draft), didn’t get much more polished than this opening chapter. The first draft...

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