Magnificence Ambassadors Community

Michelle Young

I was born and raised in a theatrical and multicultural family. Multiculturalism is a major focus in my life, although the seeds of recognizing that were planted when I, at 16, lived with the Oglala Sioux Indians in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. My first book, co-authored, and probably the most easily accessible now through my publisher, Caddo Gap Press Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Meeting the Challenge of Our Multicultural America & Beyond--won two state awards and one national award as well as a nomination for the National Association for Multicultural Education Book of the Year award. (I've recently learned Amazon.com also has the book available as well.) My work with multicultural education has earned me the honors of being the only commercial, non-PhD writer on the editorial board of an educational journal. In addition, I've worked online in a seminar called a Zemi, as a kind of co-teacher with Iwao Shinjo of Japan and his university students, teaching the students English and multicultural education.

Mary Kayitesi Blewitt

 

I try to give people hope.  Ten years ago, the women I met there didn't want to live.  Now they have self-worth.  But there's still so much more to achieve

I was born a refugee. My parents left Rwanda in 1959, though some of my family later returned. But I have lived in the UK since 1986, when I met my husband Richard.

My family are Tutsis, on of Rwanda's two main tribes. In April 1994, the government called on the other tribe, the Hutus, to wipe out the Tutsis.

As a result, more than one million people died. As soon as I heard about the genocide, I knew
I had to help. I flew to Rwanda three months after massacre began.  There were so many orphans, they were clinging on to me, begging me to take them. 

Ieneke van Houten

I am a 59 year old grandmother who has finally decided what she will be when she grows up: A Freedom Facilitator.

I was born in the Netherlands, came to Canada in 1969. I am proud to be Canadian, but will always remain a little bit Dutch. I studied French language and literature at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A geology job for my husband brought us to the West Kootenay area in 1970. We fell in love with the lakes and mountains, bought an acreage, and have done whatever it took to stay put here.

Christopher Niem Henley

Last October I left everything behind and went on a mission of Peace and Magnificence. What has happened since then has been nothing short of a miracle.  What has happened since then is not at all what I had expected. (what ever that might have been)

Traveling all over the country, I have had the opportunity to meet many different people and to see them at their very best. . .folks just being folks. . . going about their day to day lives in some of the most amazingly magnificent ways.  I have shared some of the stories with you already like the one about Mr. G and the family in Vacaville, the mudwrestling demos and Carla Sanders and, of course, the adventures of the World’s Greatest Kisser.