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We're excited and proud to welcome Ashley Rhodes-Courter to our roster this Spring!  Ashley recently published a memoir about her experiences in foster care and adoption titled Three Little Words.  The video above is of the BR!CK Awards where she won a Golden Brick Award for her work as an advocate for children still in the system.  You can also learn more about Ashley by viewing a CNN profile of here. 

 

Congrats to Soapbox co-founder, Amy Richards!  Her new book, Opting In: How to Have a Child Without Losing Yourself was recently released -- and just in time for Mother's Day.   Amy's book has so-far been featured in Newsweek, Salon, and others. 

 

 Soapbox speaker Shelby Knox testified before Congress during a hearing for abstinence-only education.  Her testimony also appeared on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, here.  Go Shelby! 

 

 

 

Take a look at Soapbox founder Amy Richards talking with Dan Savage about abortion, adoption, and what "choice" means. They spoke together at City Arts & Lectures earlier this month.

We were delighted to find a lengthy review of Veronica Chambers' recently published book, Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation in the March/April 2008 issue of the Women's Review of Books.  Go pick up a copy if you get a chance!