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February 8th, 2012 by admin

Taught In All the Learning

Taught In All the Learning

Dayan Bernal

Born in Bolivia and raised in California, Dayan traveled the challenging road of becoming the first college graduate in her family. She knew she wanted to help young people like herself who had great potential, but often lacked the knowledge of how to go to college. Inspired by her 2007 Brigham Young University Thesis project, she founded Teens ACT, a nonprofit that helps at-risk students go to college.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, Bolivia, English, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: Bolivia, careers, education, Hispanic Mormon, Latina Mormon, LDS woman, mission, Mormon women, service, single, Utah

January 13th, 2012 by admin

Flunking Sainthood

Flunking Sainthood

Jana Riess

Jana Riess was baptized in her final year of study at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her career plan to be a Protestant pastor derailed by her conversion, she now is an editor for a religious publishing house, teaches college, and writes about religion. Her most recent book, Flunking Sainthood, is a memoir about a year’s journey through spiritual practices.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, Venezuela - Tags: careers, conversion, convert, education, faith, graduate school, LDS culture, LDS woman, missionaries, Mormon women, part-member marriage, writing

November 29th, 2011 by admin

An Instrument of Homecoming

An Instrument of Homecoming

Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks has emerged as an important commentator on Mormonism for mainstream media. In fact, this year Politico named her as one of 50 commentators to watch in America. She is currently the Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She writes about Mormonism and politics for Religion Dispatches and is the author of askmormongirl.com.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, 41 - 50 years old, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: California, careers, education, graduate school, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon women, part-member marriage, pioneers, prayer, writing

November 10th, 2011 by admin

I Too Must Give

I Too Must Give

Kirsten Monson

During a trip to India in May 2010, mother-of-five Kirsten Monson discovered the beautiful artisan work of the local women and determined that she would provide a way for their work to reach a receptive market. The result was Elevita, a site that sells products from artisans in developing countries and then funnels all of the revenue back into the local communities. In this interview, Kirsten talks about the status of women in the countries she serves and the drive she feels from the Spirit to help them.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Married with children, Singapore, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Uncategorized - Tags: education, humanitarian aid, india, Mormons in Singapore, philanthropy, service

June 22nd, 2011 by admin

A Different Kind of Pioneer

A Different Kind of Pioneer

Bindu Sudhir Sabbavarapu

Bindu Sabbavarapu joined the church in her hometown of Visakhapatnam, India, in the face of cultural and familial barriers. She married another Indian Mormon and together they are striving to pursue lives that bear witness to their families of the goodness of the gospel. Soon after her marriage, Bindu immigrated to the United States, where she and her husband are pursuing advanced degrees and raising their 10-month-old baby girl. Although the gospel transcends culture, Bindu’s interview reflects the challenge of practicing a religion in a nation where Christians and Mormons in particular are a significant minority.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Featured, India, Married with children, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Uncategorized - Tags: BYU, conversion, convert, education, graduate school, india, Indian Mormon, mission, Mormon women, motherhood

June 9th, 2011 by admin

Dressed for Success

Dressed for Success

Athelia Woolley LeSueur (CK)

When health challenges derailed CK’s dreams of being a dancer, she resourcefully pursued another interest, fashion design, which led her to start her own business: the modest dress company Shabby Apple. CK’s vision for her company stems from her belief that fashion can be a powerful tool for emphasizing women’s femininity and even their spirituality, as well as a tool for charitable giving. Recently married at 32, CK reflects on how the process of starting her own company has led to her mature views on marriage.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Artistic Women, English, Married without children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: careers, education, fashion, graduate school, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon women in business, New York, philanthropy, single

May 25th, 2011 by admin

The Satisfaction of Looking Back

The Satisfaction of Looking Back

Sherry Young

Sherry Young raised five highly educated and successful children (including Hall of Fame football quarterback Steve Young). Now she’s reveling her own opportunities to have a newspaper column and look back on a life full of life lessons. Among other words of wisdom, Sherry reflects on the hard work of marriage, the importance of friends and the realities of parenting a famous child.

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Posted in: 71+, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, United States - Tags: education, family, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon women, motherhood, New York, Utah, writing

May 4th, 2011 by admin

A Savior To Her Family

A Savior To Her Family

Susan Anneveldt

Susan Anneveldt knows that, even though she is the only member of her family to join the Church in this life, her passion for family history work has led her deceased extended family members to the gospel through temple work. As a single woman caring for aging parents and living far away from her local branch in the Netherlands, Susan combats the plague of loneliness with her understanding of the gospel’s worldwide community and the assurance of eternal families.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, 51 - 60 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Holland, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Uncategorized - Tags: Africa, conversion, convert, disease, education, Europe, family, family history, LDS woman, mission, Mormon women, service, single

April 20th, 2011 by admin

Embracing A Culture of Faith

Embracing A Culture of Faith

Julia Klebingat

Julia Klebingat grew up in Riga, Latvia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. Introduced to the Church when Brigham Young University’s Legacy Dixieland Band performed in her hometown, she married at 19 and attended Ricks College. Julia recounts the culture shock she experienced getting married, joining the Church and moving to the United States in such a short time, and the blessings that have come into her life since that time. She is preparing to move from Frankfurt, Germany, to Kiev, Ukraine, to serve alongside her husband, who will preside in the Ukraine, Kiev mission.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Russian, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Ukraine, Uncategorized - Tags: conversion, convert, education, Europe, faith, graduate school, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon women, Ricks College, Russia, Ukraine

March 23rd, 2011 by admin

In Perfect Harmony

In Perfect Harmony

Liz Shropshire

Liz Shropshire is the founder and director of the Shropshire Music Foundation, which provides free musical instruments and instruction to former child soldiers and refugees in Kosovo, Uganda, and Northern Ireland. Since 1999, more than 10,000 young people have participated in Shropshire Music Foundation classes.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Northern Ireland, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Uncategorized - Tags: Africa, careers, education, Europe, graduate school, humanitarian aid, LDS woman, Mormon women, music, philanthropy, single

March 9th, 2011 by admin

The Mind of A Mother

The Mind of A Mother

Lia Collings

A student of Latin and Greek and a budding education reformer, Lia Collings is already engaged in teaching her three young daughters about these things she loves. Lia takes inspiration on how to intertwine her scholarly and motherly pursuits from the passel of mothers in her New Haven, CT, branch. She solicited and compiled a book of essays about their experiences, which she entitled Choosing Motherhood.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: education, faith, family, graduate school, home schooling, Mormon women, motherhood, writing

February 23rd, 2011 by admin

Reality TV vs Reality Mothering

Reality TV vs Reality Mothering

Melissa Puente

Melissa Puente is an Emmy-winning television editor and a mother of two sets of twin boys, ages 4 and 2. With four boys under three, Melissa felt tension in her home that didn’t reflect her gratitude at having her children safely with her. She challenged herself to read parenting books and document her responses on her own website, Learning Mommy. She now takes her education as a mother as seriously as her education as a TV editor.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: blog, California, careers, education, infertility, LDS woman, Mormon women

January 6th, 2011 by admin

Experimenting On The Word

Experimenting On The Word

Elizabeth Krider

As a graduate of Caltech with a PhD in Chemistry, Elizabeth Krider understands science. She also understands that spiritual experiences are real. Elizabeth uses her knowledge of science and her faith in God to ask questions about how the world works, and she is now passing along that skill of scientific deductive reasoning to her children so that they, too, can understand the world around them.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: BYU, careers, education, graduate school, LDS woman, mormon scientist, Mormon women, motherhood, service

December 8th, 2010 by admin

Being Her Own Role Model

Being Her Own Role Model

Lyn Beckstead Greenwood

Trained as a chemical engineer, professional female role models have been hard to come by for Lyn Greenwood. That hasn’t stopped her from having a successful career at ExxonMobil. But the lack of role models has forced her to pave her own way as a single working mother and later, once she remarried, forced her to build up her own confidence in the kind of mother, worker and friend to others that she wanted to be.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Divorced, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: BYU, careers, divorce, education, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon engineer, motherhood, professional choices, single

November 24th, 2010 by admin

Bearing Her Testimony in a Different Way

Bearing Her Testimony in a Different Way

Trang Thach

After graduating with her master’s of public health degree from Yale, Trang Thach moved to Romania to research drinking water with the aid of a Fulbright Grant. Her search for a career, along with her family history and temple work for ancestors from Vietnam, has helped strengthen her testimony of God’s love and mercy.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Romania, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: careers, conversion, convert, education, Europe, family, LDS woman, single, temple

November 17th, 2010 by admin

Peace Through Conflict

Peace Through Conflict

Sahar Qumsiyeh

Raised near Bethlehem, only a few blocks away from the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Sahar Qumsiyeh intimately knows places that are considered holy by many religions. However, this significant area is marked by conflict and war, and as a Palestinian, Sahar faced barriers (both figurative and literal) to joining the Church. In this interview, Sahar describes how her introduction to the Church and understanding of the gospel enabled her to overcome the feelings of anger and frustration that accompanied her life in this turbulent region.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Palestine, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Uncategorized - Tags: BYU, conversion, convert, education, faith, LDS woman, Mormon women, Palestinian Mormon, prayer, single

October 27th, 2010 by admin

I Am Home

I Am Home

Heather Willoughby

Heather Willoughby discovered she had a destiny: To study ethnomusicology and return to teach it in the beloved country of her mission, Korea. Now a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, the largest women’s university in the world, Heather teaches comparative culture classes, as well as classes on gender and human rights. She has a special appreciation for Pansori, a traditional Korean music, and feels a deep spiritual connection to this country she loves.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Korea, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: careers, education, graduate school, Korea, LDS woman, mission, Mormon women, music, professor, single

October 13th, 2010 by admin

Critical Thinking for a Critical Time

Critical Thinking for a Critical Time

Catherine Humphrey

Catherine Humphrey was married to her first husband for 28 years. Parents of six children, Catherine and her husband served together as mission presidents in Brazil when she was 32 years old. Their marriage slowly dissolved after she learned that her husband had embezzled from clients and been disbarred. As a single mother, she went back to school, completing a master’s degree and a Ph.D. Thirteen years after marrying her second husband, he was diagnosed with an acute brain disease that has slowly robbed him of cognition and function.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, Divorced, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: careers, divorce, education, family, graduate school, LDS woman, Mormon women, motherhood, single mother

September 15th, 2010 by admin

A Citizen of the World

A Citizen of the World

Camilla Smith

This dynamic mother of five grown children shares her love of travel, of reading, of science and her admiration of her own mother. Camilla serves as the Church’s Public Affairs representative in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she further contributes to her community by being a trustee of the National Public Radio foundation, the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, the San Francisco Interfaith Council, and Clog America.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Uncategorized, United States - Tags: education, faith, family, graduate school, LDS culture, LDS woman, Mormon women, motherhood, New York, philanthropy, service

August 25th, 2010 by admin

Cutting With Confidence

Cutting With Confidence

Christie Somers

Christie moved to New York City by herself at age 20 to work in a salon. Now ten years later, her clients include celebrities and magazine models. Christie talks about battling the stereotypes facing hair dressers and how she has gained confidence in her skills, intelligence and spiritual understanding despite not having an academic education. Christie also reveals how her sister’s death from a heroin addition brought her divorce-torn family together and healed her personally.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Artistic Women, Artistic Women, English, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, United States - Tags: artist, careers, divorce, education, family, Mormon women, New York, single, Utah

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