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Monica Weeks is a Project Coordinator for the Sustainable Finance team at the World Resources Institute and a freelance photographer. She is a feminist, cyclist, and avid traveler, and lives in DC with her partner and their two plants.
Monica Weeks
Monica Weeks is a Project Coordinator for the Sustainable Finance team at the World Resources Institute and a freelance photographer. She is a feminist, cyclist, and avid traveler, and lives in DC with her partner and their two plants.
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May 9, 2014
My mother didn’t teach me just one thing. She taught me too many things to count, things which I can’t even articulate, things that wouldn’t make sense to anyone who isn’t me or my mother. But that is the beautiful thing about our mother-daughter relationship. I value this relationship more than perhaps anything else in my life. I have to. My mother would give me no other choice. She is a force. Literally and figuratively, a force. My mother and I have a strange and complicated relationship. I can only explain it properly with a lot of exasperated sighs, hand waving, and eye rolling. I also...
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December 31, 2013
Believe it or not, earlier this month I had the incredible opportunity to introduce President Barack Obama at the White House for an event to bring awareness the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The event was one of many in a three-week campaign to refocus our national conversation on universal health coverage and the health exchanges. As part of these efforts, MomsRising.org asked me if I was interested in sharing my experiences with the White House and I said of course! My own story began seven years ago when I first started having symptoms of Crohn’s Disease while studying at the...
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