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by  |  on July 18th, 2010  |  0 comments

I’m in the US for a couple of weeks, visiting family and, importantly, experiencing the joys of speedier internet access.  What will I be watching?  First, I’ll be keeping up with the happenings in Vienna with the webcasts from the XVIII International AIDS Conference.  I’ll also be catching up on the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival Global Health track by browsing the video library – I’m particularly interested in this panel, What is the Best Response to the Next Global Pandemic?, with Nigel Crisp among others.  And finally, I plan to gorge myself on TED, specifically checking out the newly released videos from last week’s TEDGlobal 2010.

 

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Cynthia Schweer Rayner

Cynthia Schweer Rayner is an independent consultant and philanthropy advisor specializing in public health, social entrepreneurship and scalable business models for positive social change. As a recovering management consultant, she spent several months living in South Africa, and later co-founded the US branch of an organization providing support to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2009, she was an LGT Venture Philanthropy Fellow, working with mothers2mothers (m2m), a multinational non-profit organization employing mothers living with HIV as peer educators to positive pregnant women. She currently works with individuals, companies and nonprofits to finance and develop models for positive change. Cynthia has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Cape Town and visits New York frequently, where she co-owns a Manhattan-based yoga studio, mang'Oh yoga (www.mangohstudio.com).


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