Christy Turlington Burns
***MOTHERS DAY SPECIAL***
Christy Turlington Burns
From
Every Mother Counts
Christy Turlington Burns will host a special invitation only panel. We will discuss Every Mother Counts and the very special Know Mother's Day initiative! Know Mother's Day was designed to combine the power of thoughts and actions to raise awareness around the sad reality that every 2 minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth DESPITE the fact that 90% of these deaths are preventable. How can you help? It can be as simple as taking part in the EMC "Give a Thought" Pinterest campaign and getting involved in EMC initiatives such as Midlife Training in Haiti or Transportation in Uganda. https://www.everymothercounts.org/our-history I will bring to you a podcast of this discussion! I urge you to share this special edition of The MomsThoughts Show with all the special Moms in your life...and the people who love them! I would also like to thank Holly from Culture Mom Media for making this event possible. Thank you!
Christy Turlington Burns is the founder of Every Mother Counts, a campaign to end preventable deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women worldwide. In 2010, Christy directed and produced “No Woman, No Cry”, a documentary film about the global state of maternal health. Prior to her work as a global maternal health advocate, Christy focused her activism on smoking prevention and cessation after losing her father to lung cancer in 1997. She collaborated on several public health service campaigns and launched an award-winning website, SmokingIsUgly.com in 2002. Christy is also an avid yogi and merged her love of the practice and writing to author her first book, Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice (Hyperion 2002). She also founded two successful lifestyle brands; Sundãri, an Ayurvedic skincare line and nuala, a yoga inspired apparel and accessories line.
Christy is an advisor to the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council and the Harvard School of Public Health Board of Dean’s Advisors, Mother’s Day Every Day and the White Ribbon Alliance. She has contributed writings to Marie Claire Magazine, Yoga Journal and Teen Vogue along with contributions to the Huffington Post, BlogHer, MomsRising, Canada’s Globe and Mail and the UK’s Evening Standard. She has guest corresponded on NBC’s Today Show, which included reporting on the status of girl’s education in Afghanistan and an interview with H.H. the Dalai Lama. Christy has a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and is currently pursuing a MPH at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, where she lives with her husband - filmmaker Edward Burns - and their two children.
*** I have dedicated a blog page to Every Mother Counts! I will update it with news and information from Christy Turlington and Every Mother Counts. You can find out here to to get involved!
*Text, graphics, images, videos, photos all from www.everymothercounts.org
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