Mountain High: Helping Afghan Women Achieve New Heights

Beyond the warfare, bloodshed, and misogyny she witnessed in Afghanistan, Marina LeGree, ESIA MA ’07 saw mountains. Big, beautiful mountains, practically begging to be climbed. The landscape reminded her of what she saw all around her family’s farm in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington state. She and her family didn’t miss many opportunities to […]

Bundling Babies and Saving Lives: Meet Babies4Babies

Like many first-time moms-to-be, Kate Marie Grinold Sigfusson, ESIA BA ’08, is in serious preparation-mode as her due date (April 2014!) approaches.  She’s also in serious entrepreneur mode, having recently launched Babies4Babies, a luxury baby brand with a social impact mission to save lives. If you’ve ever purchased a pair of Tom’s shoes, you know […]