Africa Youth for Peace and Development Organization AYPAD

Organizing, Empowering and Creating Opportunities for Youths

Africa Youth for Peace and Development organization was formed 1995 and was finally registered in the year 2000 under the ministry of youth and sport in Sierra Leone, as a voluntary, youth development organization that aims at organizing, empowering and creating opportunities for youths and Youths groups that are in difficult circumstances.The organization ...learn more

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Ryan Van Lenning

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Email:	vagabondvan [at] hotmail.com

Address:	Oakland, California 94609 United States

I Speak:	English, Spanish

I Am:	Activist, Community Organizer, Educator, Journalist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

Member Since:	October 03, 2008

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Hi! I am a freelance writer/journalist and activist/community organizer who focuses on issues of social justice, sustainability, and travel. I write on urban agriculture/food justice, local community issues, abuse of corporate power, human rights, peace & militarism, and local/world travel. I strive to place stories and issues within a broader context and to link the local with the global. If you want to get a story out along these lines don't hesitate to contact me.

I write for a number of print and online sources, including the new progressive new and community hub Oakland Local, Terrain Magazine, Green Options, MatadorChange, and Ethical Traveler.

I also have 5+ experience teaching in the Humanities (Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Environmental Ethics, Comparative Religions, World History) at the college level and 2 years experience as a community organizer and activist for non-profits working on peace, social justice, and sustainability issues. I speak intermediate Spanish and have traveled to or lived in over 15 countries.

If you are so inclined come visit me over at my blogs Pull the Root, Travelin Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.

I have experience in new media, web content, news, advocacy, people profiles, organizational profiles, travel guides, interviewing, editing and proofreading, fact sheets, and documentary film and book reviews.

I am also interested in collaborating on a project tentatively entitled "Another Possible World" which is an interactive Map/Database/Travel Guide/Resource Network/Education Tool. I envision it as Wiserearth meets Matador Travel and Change.org, having a threesome, and begetting Volunteer match, Freecycle, and Common Language Project. I am an idea and content guy and I want to collaborate with designers and programmers and others. Visually bold, content rich, crowd-sourced, and user-friendly.