MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: February 22, 2021
Lisa Herb
Edmonds resident Lisa Herb has made it her mission to advocate for the equitable treatment of women on a global scale.
In 2005, Herb founded the Alliance for International Women’s Rights (AIWR), and serves as its director. AIWR supports current and future women leaders in developing countries, with a current focus on Afghanistan. AIWR creates connections between Afghan women and skilled professionals through long-distance empowerment programs like English as a Second Language (ESL), and by mentoring legal practitioners.
The inspiration for AIWR began when Herb, a Seattle-based attorney, traveled with her husband, a wildlife biologist, to Mongolia in 2003. Looking for ways to stay busy while her husband worked, she decided to volunteer with women’s rights organizations and discovered she had a true passion for it. She helped women write emails, acted as a language liaison and assisted a women’s rights organization
Talent On Tap – Kate and Martin Attend and Document The Secret Marathon
Whenever I see someone running on the sidewalk or in the park park, I always want to yell out, “you can’t keep running from your problems!” There’s a reason I only yell it in my head – I usually want to humour myself or I’m envious that I ate 3 cookies that morning and topped it off with a sugar rich caramel macchiato! I used to run regularly and even competed in a half marathon on Fathers-Day in Winnipeg approx. 33 years ago. I do recommend it… but only after proper training. Although I considered myself a very good athlete, running a marathon is really
Colin Scheyen
Hybrid live-action/animated film The Secret Marathon follows running mentor Martin Parnell and filmmaker Kate McKenzie carrying a torch for women s self-empowerment as part of the Marathon of Afghanistan.
Guinness endurance record-holder Martin Parnell, who ran 250 marathons in 2010 for a charity, recalls the moment he decided to run alongside pioneering women in Afghanistan defying insults and threats to run secret marathons for freedom.
It came in 2015 after Parnell suffered a life-threatening blood clot and facing dark despair one day read an article about Zainab, the first woman to run an official marathon in Afghanistan against local customs. I got frankly mad that a woman in Afghanistan can t run in the streets, which I take for granted, without being mistreated by men, Parnell tells