Jan Hamilton: The Reformer in POD-C
On the phone, her voice sounded calm, light, almost light-hearted. “I feel safe from them in here.” Jan Hamilton was describing her life as an inmate in POD-C at the Park County Jail in Fairplay, CO. A senior, diagnosed with cancer, she was placed in the small, bone chilling cell – as she puts it – “to die.” The door to her cell has a four by 10-inch slot that offers a view of the women’s dining hall. One of the inmates had threatened her life, so she was placed in insolation, she was told, for her own safety. “There are 20 inmates in this section. Most are lesbians.” In a hand-written letter, she described the conditions of her cell. Reading it, it seemed almost as if she was giving Rachel Maddow and Sally Kohn a guided tour of her small cell along with a team of investigators: including a lawyer from Human Rights Watch, someone from the Elder Abuse hotline, and a senior official from the Colorado Department of Corrections. “My bed is sheet metal. There is no heat, I have only two thin blankets to keep me warm, and I’ve spent 10 days and nights in the same bloody clothes. In the middle of the cell is “a 14 inch drain is filled with stagnant contaminated sludge where bugs come and go 24/7.” Could Hell be worse? When Jan was transferred from her hometown of Aspen – where she had spent most of her adult life – to Fairplay, she realized that it could be a one-way journey. As she tells it: “Officer Bird, who locked up my cancer...The Female Brain is Hardwired for 21st Century Leadership
When a U.S. team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania broke the news that men and women’s brains were “hardwired differently,” I received a flood of congratulatory emails from family and friends who congratulated me with praise similar to that offered to a mother announcing the birth of a new child. The most compelling was from my grandson, now a junior at Stanford, who was the first to send me the news link, via text message. It was especially poignant because I had given him a copy of my report: Hardwired – The 10 Major Traits of Women That Can Save the World, based on what I called “The New Science of the Woman’s Brain,” when it first came out, 18 months ago. Now vindicated by a team of scientists who did brain scans of over 1,000 men, women, boys and girls, I feel a bit like a trailblazer who now gets to move to the front of the parade. This science-based validation of my work, and my grandson’s text message, gives me hope. Until now, he had never read my book. And over the past year, my public talks have attracted only a handful of people from academia and science including a former president of Babson College, who pronounced it “Terrific! Powerful!” and a medical doctor who proclaimed: “I have attended 100′s, if not 1,000′s of presentations, and this was one of the best!” Now on the threshold of a new era, we are entering the DMZ, a safe zone between the Age of Competition and the Age of Collaboration, where men and women are discovering what I have been saying all along:...
SIRI Is Now Following Me On Twitter!
Gotta love digital technology! If you saw the movie HER, and the H-P blog I wrote about HER, then you’ll laugh to learn that the Voice of SIRI is now following me on Twitter. Thanks Siriously Susan for connecting! Alexia Parks, Founder of the 10 TRAITS Leadership Academy. Creating a new model of leadership based on the female brain. It’s the ONLY leadership training in the world based on the New Science of the female...
Bianca Jagger: A Woman of Uncommon Courage
I am happy to to serve as Master of Ceremonies in welcoming Bianca Jagger to the Americas Latino ECO Festival. Jagger’s name is known around the world. In 1970, she became the first wife of rock star Mick Jagger. However, for many of us here today, she achieved her celebrity status because of her life long work as a human rights activist. Bianca Jagger has been called “the highest paid activist” in the world. Her work defending human rights, ending violence against women and girls, and addressing the threat of climate change has taken her to HOT spots around the glob. To me, Bianca Jagger offers ALL women of all ages, across all countries and cultures a powerful role model of women’s empowerment and courage. In my work as the Founder of the 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Academy which offers the ONLY leadership training programs in the world based on the New Science of the FEMALE brain, and in my role as a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations, I consider Bianca Jagger a great inspiration for the women I work with. As a young girl growing up in Nicaragua, she received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Science. Influenced by the work of Gandhi, she traveled extensively in India. In the mid-1970s, on a visit home to Nicaragua, she was shocked by the oppression and suffering of her people at the hands of the Somoza regime. A few years later, she took part in an event that she calls: “a turning point” in her life. At the time, Bianca Jagger was part of...
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