Rebecca Walker is the writer of the fabulous books Baby Love, Black White Jewish, One Big Happy Family and What Makes a Man. She is also a speaker and teacher, hosting inspiring writer’s workshops in Hawaii, where she lives. Please visit her web site at: www.rebeccawalker.com.
Rebecca Walker
I am so, so pleased, honored, thrilled, grateful to report that the following wonderful and talented high-profile folks have agreed to participate in ‘under no one’s thumb’, the celebrity thumbprint portrait exhibition and auction project I am developing in order to raise money for organizations fighting to abolish sex trafficking as well as working to empower survivors. Please check back as I (fingers crossed!) add more and more names to the list....... thank you!
Danielle LaPorte is the author of the blog White Hot Truth. She is a consultant who helps entrepreneurs rock their careers, is a former think tank exec, and author of the bestselling book, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design. She’s got more fabulous and impressive things going on than I could possibly fully list here, so PLEASE - read all about her HERE.
Danielle LaPorte
Stuart Murdoch is the lead singer and songwriter for the band Belle & Sebastian. Please visit their web site at: www.belleandsebastian.com. The fantastic pic of him to the left was taken by his wife, Marisa Privitera Murdoch, featured next on this list!
Stuart Murdoch
Marisa Privitera is a very talented photographer and documentary filmmaker. Please visit both of her web sites at:
Marisa Privitera
David Batstone is the author of he book that got me passionate about and involved in the cause of eradicating human trafficking - “Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade-And How We Can Fight It” and he has also founded an organization by the same name aimed at fighting the problem on multiple levels.
David Batstone
Chris Trapper is an extraordinarily talented singer and songwriter and frontman for the band The Pushstars. You probably already know his music, but if not, visit his web site and/or his Amazon store below!
Chris Trapper
Marty Casey is a songwriter and performing artist who made a name for himself on Rockstar: INXS and is now frontman for Marty Casey & Lovehammers. A true renaissance man, he also now has a gorgeous line of contemporary jewelry and accessories, The Marty Casey Silver Elements Collection, designs inspired by nature and created with the environment in mind.
Marty Casey
The Celebrity Roster!
As I write this, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Founder and President of fuel | we power change is working on my behalf to contact a handful of really big celebrities affiliated with charitable organizations fighting sex trafficking. She has already gotten Matisyahu on board for me - yes, Matisyahu! - and I am overwhelmingly grateful and excited about it.
Alice Anderson is the author of HUMAN NATURE: Poems, awarded both the Elmer Holmes Bobst Prize for Emerging Writers from NYU and the Best First Book Prize from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Past recipients of the Bobst Prize include John Updike, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and Arthur Miller. Human Nature earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and rave reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, and the Boston Review of Books.
Alice Anderson
Alice holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work is featured extensively in journals such as The New York Quarterly, Agni, Plum Review, New Letters, and the like. Anderson's poems are featured in the anthologies On The Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists in America; American Poetry: The Next Generation; The Why and Later; and in the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Courage to Heal.
Katharine Harmon
Katharine Harmon is the writer of two of my absolute favorite art books - ‘You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination’ and ‘The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography’. These books are fantastic, and I highly recommend them! Click here for her Author Page on Amazon.com.
Vickie Howell
Vickie Howell is a mother, self-taught designer, writer, spokesperson, viral marketing consultant and DIY Lifestyles expert with a focus on the Needle Arts and environmentally conscious crafting– all endeavors which are housed under her company, Craft.Rock.Love Media LLC. Vickie is most well-known as the Host and Creative Consultant of 8 seasons of DIY Network & HGTV’s show, Knitty Gritty. She was also the co-host of DIY’s Stylelicious, Lifetime Television’s web series, CRAFTED, and several craft-based TV specials. Vickie has been featured internationally in numerous televisions shows, radio broadcasts and publications including: NBC’s The Today Show, BBC Radio Scotland, E! Entertainment’s Singled Out, and Real Simple Magazine.
Musician Matisyahu is on board, and I could not be more excited! I am really, really thrilled. He appears in director Justin Dillon’s film about trafficking entitled ‘Call + Response’ and in it performs an amazing, moving and mesmerizing rendition of ‘Redemption Song’. Proceeds from the sale of his portrait in the auction will benefit the ‘Call + Response’, an organization that fights slavery on four fronts: Helps Rescue Victims of Forced Labor with the International Justice Mission, Enable The Emancipation Network to Create Sustainable Employment and Independence For Survivors of Trafficking in Calcutta, India, Helps rescue and care for over 250 children in slavery through Free The Slaves, and Help provide employment to former child soldiers with Global Angels.
Matisyahu
Celebrity Talent Involvement for Matisyahu arranged by the team at Fuel | We Power Change s