March 21, 2003: Headlines: Art: COS - Fiji: Rugs: Business: Star Tribune: Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
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March 21, 2003: Headlines: Art: COS - Fiji: Rugs: Business: Star Tribune: Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
She has designs on global activism
Published March 21, 2003
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Stephanie Odegard, who joined Dayton's as a merchandise trainee out of the University of Minnesota in the late 1960s, has an interest in design, native crafts and human rights.
She left a job as a dress buyer to join the Peace Corps and for more than a decade as a village-level development consultant to the World Bank and United Nations. In 1987, she started what has become a multimillion-dollar hand-woven rug business that also combats child labor and inhumane practices.
She will discuss her human-rights and economic development efforts in the South Pacific and Nepal in a speech today at 2 p.m. on the Atrium Stage at International Market Square.
Odegard, 55, a Minneapolis native and CEO of New York-based Odegard Inc., appears as part of the Home Design Show at International Market Square. Odegard carpets are sold there at the Weskuske showroom.
Neal St. Anthony
When this story was posted in December 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| Our debt to Bill Moyers Former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers leaves PBS next week to begin writing his memoir of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Read what Moyers says about journalism under fire, the value of a free press, and the yearning for democracy. "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country," he warns, "or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia." |
| Is Gaddi Leaving? Rumors are swirling that Peace Corps Director Vasquez may be leaving the administration. We think Director Vasquez has been doing a good job and if he decides to stay to the end of the administration, he could possibly have the same sort of impact as a Loret Ruppe Miller. If Vasquez has decided to leave, then Bob Taft, Peter McPherson, Chris Shays, or Jody Olsen would be good candidates to run the agency. Latest: For the record, Peace Corps has no comment on the rumors. |
| The Birth of the Peace Corps UMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn. |
| Charges possible in 1976 PCV slaying Congressman Norm Dicks has asked the U.S. attorney in Seattle to consider pursuing charges against Dennis Priven, the man accused of killing Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner on the South Pacific island of Tonga 28 years ago. Background on this story here and here. |
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