About Us: Press

In Print

"The Magnificent Mile," Runner's World, August 2010

"Ridway gears up for Marathon", Frederick News Post, April 2009
"The Accidental Activist", Fitness Magazine, March 2007 (PDF)
She ran for their lives, O, The Oprah Magazine, December 2006
Heroes of Running, Runner's World Magazine, December 2006 (PDF)
Lifting a Burden of War, The Oregonian, August 2006
Hearing the Cries, and Running to Help, The Oregonian, August 2005
Portland Women Go Global, NW Women's Journal, November 2005.

Television, Radio, Audio

An American in Congo, The New York Times (Multimedia), February 2010
Lisa Shannon Visits the Congo Video, The Oprah Show, September 2009
Worldview, Chicago Public Radio, October 2008
Women for Women and Run for Congo, WVIE 1370 Baltimore, February 2008
Worldview, Chicago Public Radio, September 2007
Worldview, Chicago Public Radio, October 2006.
Voices on Genocide Prevention, Podcast, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 2006.
The Lisa Birnback Show, Greenstone Radio, September 2006.
Feeling the Weight, Oregon Territory, Oregon Public Broadcasting, September 2006.
Take Five, XM Radio, April 2006.
The Thom Hartman Show, KPOJ Portland, August 2005.
Africa on Fire, KBOO, August 2006.


 

 

 

 

 





Women for Women International supports women in war and post-war regions—like our sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo— with financial assistance, job skills training, rights awareness education, trauma counseling, and small business assistance so they can rebuild their lives.

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