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The Queen listens but doesn’t say much, joked Ann Avidon, Vice Consul, in setting up a cardboard photo at a recent health care event at the UK Consulate in Cambridge.
Like Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO and author of Lean-In, Cambridge author Anita Harris is troubled by the conundrum created when talented women opt out of careers and lose the opportunity to advance to positions that might allow them to influence workplace culture. But, Harris suggests, perhaps it is not the privileged who are likeliest to push for change or equality for others.
Breakthrough Greater Boston, the nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing under-resourced students to attend four-year colleges and to training the next generation of urban teachers, reports that it raised $215,000 in its annual Springfest event on April 24th.
Anita Harris reports that Boston area acupuncturists are offering free services to help minimize post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in aftermath of Marathon bombing.