Articles in Category: Profiles & Bios

Tori Leckie (Runner/Writer/Mountaineer)

tori-leckie-2.jpgTori Leckie is a young-ish (!) fitness junkie, blogger and freelance writer living in Dubai.  She is passionate about running and mountain climbing; she's run six marathons and two ultra marathons in 2010, two of which she won.

Her love for high-altitude mountain climbing has found her on amazing life-changing expeditions across all corners of the world and will next see her in Tibet in the spring of 2011, when she will climb Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world.

She has been an ambassador for Nike thanks to her achievements to date and is now in talks with adidas.

Baria Daye (Entrepreneur/Thought Leader)

baria-daye.jpgBaria Daye is currently a Board member in the Maurice Fadel Prize competition for the best business plan in Northern Lebanon, where the poverty rate reaches as high as 38% and where there lies a lot of potential for growth and business development.
 
She also founded and is the president of an NGO operating in Tripoli, North Lebanon called Tripoli Youth Forum, which has been organizing strategic events in Tripoli that are either international or taking place for the first time in the city.

Tripoli Youth Forum organized the first Stand Against Poverty Global UN Campaign in Lebanon in 2009 in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and  with two other partners  coordinated the first Tripoli International Half Marathon.

Kim Cattrall (Actress)

kim-cattrall.jpgKim Victoria Cattrall (born 21 August 1956) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, and Mannequin.

Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. Her mother, (Gladys) Shane, née Baugh, was a secretary, and her father, Dennis, a construction engineer. She was raised Catholic.

When she was three months old, her family immigrated to the Canadian city of Courtenay, British Columbia.

At 11, she returned to England when her grandmother became ill, and she took a number of acting examinations with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), before returning to Canada at age 16 to finish her final year of secondary school.

Carol P. Christ (Teacher/Author)

carol-p-christ.jpgCarol Patrice Christ (born 1945) is a teacher and author and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

She is the author of the widely reprinted essay "Why Women Need the Goddess,", which argues in favor of the concept of there having been an ancient religion of a supreme Goddess.

Christ has written five influential books on women's spirituality and feminist theology. She co-edited the classic anthologies Weaving the Visions (1989) and Womanspirit Rising (1979/1989).

These included feminist religious writing from writers from a very diverse range of religious backgrounds.

She has taught at major universities in the United States, including Columbia University, Harvard Divinity School, Pomona College, San Jose State, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.