Tiffany Williams, 01/10/13

Advocacy Director, Break The Chain Campaign

This month, in honor of National Human Trafficking and Slavery Prevention Month, NDWA is launching a project aiming to raise awareness about human trafficking of domestic workers, and to build leadership skills of survivors to be their own advocates.

Tom Davis, 01/10/13

Patch.com regional editor and Author, 'A Legacy of Madness'

Nearly three months, they've been waiting for some breakthrough, some word from local officials, news reporters, anybody, that Congress is going to step in, and protect them like they believe they should.

Jimmy Kimmel and Zane Wilemon, 01/09/13

Mozilla Firefox will give $50,000 dollars to the Crowdrise fundraiser that raises the most money for their nonprofit cause by the end of tomorrow, January 10. Everything was cool until Ed Norton started coming in hot.

Chi Mgbako, 01/10/13

Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Leitner International Human Rights Clinic, Fordham Law School

Community paralegals in Africa emerged as early as the 1950s in South Africa, helping black South Africans attempt escape from apartheid's legal black hole. Since then, paralegalism as a method of legal empowerment has spread like a brushfire throughout Africa.

Natasha Ashton, 01/10/13

Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Petplan

Shredded furniture and piles of pet hair aside, there are a few pet-related resolutions you should make -- and keep! -- in 2013.

Melinda Gates, 01/09/13

Co-chair, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The focus of our education strategy in recent years has centered on helping teachers do their best work. We're working on this challenge from many angles and with many partners, including teachers themselves. We started with the most basic question: What does great teaching look like?

Kristi York Wooten and Laura Turner Seydel, 01/10/13

Did you know that just $100 can fund a water-quality test in a stream or river and $500 can provide an inner-city school with plants and tools for an organic vegetable garden? Even smaller amounts can be very meaningful to local recycling or cleanup projects in your community.

Dr. Jane Aronson, 01/09/13

Pediatrician and CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation

Amy has a lot of ideas about how to help kids express their dreams creatively. She has vision, and that is what all our Ambassadors should have in order to reach thousands more orphans and vulnerable children who need our help and support.

Katey Comerford, 01/10/13

Executive Director, Jumpstart DC

Imagine starting a race knowing everyone will get a head start, except for you. Not exactly fair, is it? But for many children, this isn't too far off from reality.

Bill Quigley, 01/10/13

Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans, CCR Associate Legal Director

Despite billions in aid that were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, remain.

Katherine Wintsch, 01/10/13

Founder, The Mom Complex

Mothers around the world tell me they have something to say, they have messages inside their broken hearts, but they don't know what to do with them.

Philippe Douste-Blazy, 01/10/13

Under-Secretary General of the United Nations; Chair, UNITAID

Last year, UNITAID released a study that demonstrates exactly what a country would need to do to implement an FTT. The study found that the introduction of such a tax on a national basis should have no significant negative impact on national financial markets.

Dan Lesser, 01/10/13

Director, Economic Security, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Right-wing think tanks will continue to decry people who receive benefits as "takers" and disparage safety net programs for "breeding a culture of dependency." But a solid majority of Americans, have had different life experiences and reject this view.

Diana Nyad, 01/09/13

Long-distance swimmer, journalist, and broadcaster

Those of you privileged to love and be loved by an innocent, playful, soulful animal, I know you hear me through my torrent of tears.

Marci Alboher, 01/09/13

Writer/speaker/encore advocate

Retirement isn't likely to make it onto any lists of hot trends for 2013. But if retirement is out, what's in? For a growing number of people, it's continued work.

Jonny Imerman, 01/09/13

Founder and Chief Mission Officer, Imerman Angels

Although I had my network of support in my family, friends and doctors, once I started introducing myself to these fellow cancer fighters I realized that they were providing me something valuable that my caregivers could not

Chantel Garrett, 01/08/13

Mental health advocate

Although Max expressed fear of being lumped together with violent murderers, he asked me to share our family's story as a means of bringing focus to a long list of potential solutions to events such as the Newtown tragedy.