Me at Il Gesu" (An amazing Church)
The lecture was very well received this morning. So many potential collaborations and invitations to present at other Italian and European Genetics conferences. Thank you Francesca Forzano for inviting me to Rome. Francesca and I met at the Conference for the Society for Behavioral Phenotypes and Positive Exposure exhibition opening in Cambridge, UK. She is awesome! Here are a few more pics from Rome.
The Pantheon..
The Pantheon, a section.
Streets of Venice
San Giorgio
La Salute!
Streets of Venice
Such Colors
So excited to be blogging from Rome. Im here to speak at a conference: National Italian Clinical Geneticists Conference (what a long name!) – which will be held in Policlinico Gemelli, Catholic University of Rome, on February 8 and 9. Before arriving here today, I travelled to Venice, Milano and Florence, just to have a look. Italy is so so beautiful. Here are a few images from Venice, a city that truly emulates the mission of Positive Exposure by celebrating the extraordinary beauty of uniqueness. BRAVA!!!!!!!!
So Beautiful!
Piazza San Marco from a Taxi!
The ceiling of the galleria in Milano
St Peter's in Rome
Ahhhhh Roma!!!
See the holiday version of the Viewfinder newsletter with a collage of faces from 2009.
Positive Exposure is pleased to announce that Kartemquin films has secured a grant for our joint trip to East Africa next year. We’re looking forward to encountering the beauty and dignity of people living with albinism in the region.
Shot of NOAH’s president, Mike McGowan, being interviewed for Voice of
America, in DC!
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Positive Exposure has published periodic updates about the attacks on people with albinism in Tanzania. Things seemed to be getting better in recent months with the sentencing of some of the killers and a halt in reported incidents. Now we are sorry to report that Reuters has reported the death of a ten year old boy, attacked in front of his family.
“The family had previously tried to have their boy registered at a school where many albinos shelter but he was refused entry because it was full. His murder at the end of October marked an end of a three-month lull in the killings.
“When he was born I thought what kind of child is this, but then he turned out to be fine and happy,” said [mother] Mwakami Kilijiwa…”
Read the rest of the article here, though beware that it is shocking.
See NOAH’s Stop Albino Slaughter site for advocacy tools that can help raise awareness about these tragedies.
With the awesome Sam & Ally and their mom! Fantastic conference! This
trip has been pretty crazy! Med student lecture @ U of MN, then nurses
@ children’s Hospital in philly then the FA conference! At the airport
now for a CH18 local meeting in Canada & a school lecture with Becky
and her book on bullying at school! Xxr
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The most amazing dinner at Corpus Christi College. Cambridge. Hosted
by Dr. Petrus de Vries!!! So Hogwarts!
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Great conference, next stop Honolulu for the ASHG high school
workshop! Next blog with pics from Cambridge UK exhibit and lecture
SSBP!
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