Humanity Chats with Marjy

 Certified Divorce Recovery Coach Leah Marie Mazur Shares About Recovering from Divorce.

Leah Marie Mazur is a certified Divorce Recovery Coach and founder of Mindfully Ready, LLC. She specializes in helping moms through the mental and emotional side of divorce so they can heal, move forward, and thrive in their new chapter. She also provides a safe, judgment-free community for women rebuilding after divorce in her private Facebook group Divorced & Empowered.

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Dietician Alexandra Lautenschlaeger shares tips on diets.

About Guest
Alexandra Lautenschlaeger graduated from Clemson University in 1997 and 1998 with Bachelor Degrees in Biological Sciences, Modern Languages (German), and Sociology. She continued some graduate work in Food Science and Nutrition. In 2002, she was accepted to the Department of Health and Environmental Control Dietetic Internship Program. She was hired by Sodexo to work in at Wallace Thompson Hospital as a clinical dietitian in 2003.
In 2006, she participated in a grassroots campaign to overturn then Governor Sanford’s veto on dietetic licensure. It was overturned. In 2009 she became the nominating chair of the Piedmont Dietetic Association. That same year she won the Young Dietetic Dietitian of the Year Award from the South Carolina Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. That National Dairy Alliance chose Alexandra to be on the
“top nine” for their campaign in the Southeast. In 2010, she served as the PDA President. After that, she served as President Elect, President, and Past President of SCAND.
In 2013, Alexandra served on the board of the Clinical Nutrition Management DPG. That same year, she was chosen to help write the competency standards for today’s CDR. She also has managed to bring Past President’s like Ethan Bergam to speak at SCAND’s annual meeting. In 2109, she presented to UPAADE regarding CKD and Diabetes.
To this day, Alexandra participates in all grassroots campaigns to better dietetics. Now she promotes serving local food campaigns to help the food deserts in Spartanburg through Food Share, the Farmers Market, and USDA Farm to Families programs. She goes on local radio stations to promote all things nutrition. At the end of the day, she loves all things local, her fur babies, networking, her church, and most of all family.

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Learn about Higgins4Books.

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Learn about the Book Blackout from the South Carolina Education Association

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Dietician Alexandra Lautenschlaeger shares tips on diets.

About Guest
Alexandra Lautenschlaeger graduated from Clemson University in 1997 and 1998 with Bachelor Degrees in Biological Sciences, Modern Languages (German), and Sociology. She continued some graduate work in Food Science and Nutrition. In 2002, she was accepted to the Department of Health and Environmental Control Dietetic Internship Program. She was hired by Sodexo to work in at Wallace Thompson Hospital as a clinical dietitian in 2003.

In 2006, she participated in a grassroots campaign to overturn then Governor Sanford’s veto on dietetic licensure. It was overturned. In 2009 she became the nominating chair of the Piedmont Dietetic Association. That same year she won the Young Dietetic Dietitian of the Year Award from the South Carolina Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. That National Dairy Alliance chose Alexandra to be on the
“top nine” for their campaign in the Southeast. In 2010, she served as the PDA President. After that, she served as President Elect, President, and Past President of SCAND.
In 2013, Alexandra served on the board of the Clinical Nutrition Management DPG. That same year, she was chosen to help write the competency standards for today’s CDR. She also has managed to bring Past President’s like Ethan Bergam to speak at SCAND’s annual meeting. In 2109, she presented to UPAADE regarding CKD and Diabetes.
To this day, Alexandra participates in all grassroots campaigns to better dietetics. Now she promotes serving local food campaigns to help the food deserts in Spartanburg through Food Share, the Farmers Market, and USDA Farm to Families programs. She goes on local radio stations to promote all things nutrition. At the end of the day, she loves all things local, her fur babies, networking, her church, and most of all family.

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Humanity Chats is happy to host five educators as they discuss the importance of social-emotional learning on SEL Day.

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Be HER Champion is an uplifting panel discussion to motivate girls and women to speak up, support, and advocate for each other. The virtual event is free and open to all genders.

In commemoration of International Women's Day, join our panelists and moderator as we learn about ways to be inclusive, affirming, amplifying, and to encourage a sense of belonging across different platforms. Panelists share experience in business, the nonprofit world, education and, from a global perspective.

Meet our Panelists

Mary L. Thomas - has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of The Spartanburg County Foundation and as the Executive Director of the Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy

Molly Talbot-Metz - is the Mary Black Foundation’s fourth President/CEO

Anita Erskine - is a multi-hyphenate – an award-winning TV Host and Producer, Event Moderator, Actress and Keynote Speaker. She has been featured in the following publications: Forbes | CNN | Business Insider | Discovery | CNBC Africa | Avance Media | Glitz Africa | Those Who Inspire | Who Is Who | Trent Magazine | New African Women

Moderated by Marjy Marj (Marjorie Boafo Appiah) - seven-time bestselling author, business leader and host of the globally ranked Humanity Chats Podcast.

The theme for this year's Women's Day celebration is Embrace Equity.

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Be HER Champion is an uplifting panel discussion to motivate girls and women to speak up, support, and advocate for each other. The virtual event is free and open to all genders.

In commemoration of International Women's Day, join our panelists and moderator as we learn about ways to be inclusive, affirming, amplifying, and to encourage a sense of belonging across different platforms. Panelists share experience in business, the nonprofit world, education and, from a global perspective.

Meet our Panelists

Mary L. Thomas - has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of The Spartanburg County Foundation and as the Executive Director of the Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy

Molly Talbot-Metz - is the Mary Black Foundation’s fourth President/CEO

Anita Erskine - is a multi-hyphenate – an award-winning TV Host and Producer, Event Moderator, Actress and Keynote Speaker. She has been featured in the following publications: Forbes | CNN | Business Insider | Discovery | CNBC Africa | Avance Media | Glitz Africa | Those Who Inspire | Who Is Who | Trent Magazine | New African Women

Moderated by Marjy Marj (Marjorie Boafo Appiah) - seven-time bestselling author, business leader and host of the globally ranked Humanity Chats Podcast.

The theme for this year's Women's Day celebration is Embrace Equity.

Humanity Chats - a conversation about everyday issues that impact humans. Join us. Together, we can go far.

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Alabama Poet Laureate and Celebrated Author Ashley M. Jones Joins the Chats to Talk Literacy and Writing Journey.

About Ashley

Ashley M. Jones is Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama (2022-2026). She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press 2017),  dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020, and her collection, REPARATIONS NOW! was on the longlist for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and in the Low Residency MFA at Converse University. Jones co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. She recently served as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine, and she is a 2022 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. 

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Alabama Poet Laureate and Celebrated Author Ashley M. Jones Joins the Chats to Talk Literacy and Writing Journey.

About Ashley

Ashley M. Jones is Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama (2022-2026). She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press 2017),  dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020, and her collection, REPARATIONS NOW! was on the longlist for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and in the Low Residency MFA at Converse University. Jones co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. She recently served as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine, and she is a 2022 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. 

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