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Deborah Levine:

 \\u201cMy passion today reflects my work for a decade, making a difference in the world by looking at prejudice, religious diversity, and hate, including how to deal with it\\u201d

 Hi, Reachers.

 We are going through very important times in the last two weeks, in America and all over the world.

 I chose to dedicate this podcast to the entrepreneurs that choose to make this world a better place and to bring (for the 2nd time) the story of Deborah Levine, the founder and editor of the American Diversity Report.

Deborah Levine is the award-winning author of 14 books and the founder/editor of the American Diversity Report.

Deborah was born in Brooklyn and raised in Bermuda. Her background includes advanced degrees in cultural anthropology, religion, and urban planning. Inspired by her father, a US military intelligence officer assigned to interrogate Nazi prisoners of war during World War II, she is a former executive director of Jewish Federations.

Named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 10 Diversity & Inclusion Trailblazers, Deborah is the inventor of cognitive technology for addressing unconscious bias.

Her work as an entrepreneur includes creating the Women\\u2019s Council on Diversity, the DuPage/Chicago Interfaith Resource Network, the Youth Multicultural Video Contest, and the Southeast Global Leadership Academy.

Most passionate about

• My passion today reflects my work for a decade, making a difference in the world by looking at prejudice, religious diversity, and hate, including how to deal with it.
• I started this journey almost by accident many years ago. I was living in Chicago; my daughter was just a little one and I needed a job. My parents were both working in the Jewish community. My mother was dying of cancer and I thought it would be a gift to her if I worked for the Jewish community while she was still alive so that she could see how much she had influenced me.
• I started engaging in an interface dialog with international organizations. Then I looked for an executive position. Because I\\u2019d never been an executive director of a non-profit organization, no one would hire me. So, here, I started my entrepreneurial journey. I created my own nonprofit and made myself an executive director.
• My mother was so proud, so pleased. So was my father.

Deborah\\u2019s entrepreneurship development

• I started my company with the mission of addressing the problems that communities were having as they became more international. I also created what I called the Do-page Interface Resource Network, which is still in existence today.
• Across the nation, when communities became more international, they had to face prejudice toward newcomers, especially those of a different faith.
• This affected the entire city, the county, the state. It was ongoing and affected people from India, people from Muslim countries, and Jews. It caused tremendous friction. My mission was to fix that.
• Eventually, I was approached by different groups, like the county law enforcement department, which wanted to prepare materials that would help their people understand the communities that they were trying to assist. Other examples included public schools (for their educators), hospitals (for their chaplains), and many more.
• So, I started to document everything and write books so that if I couldn\\u2019t be everywhere, at least I had a voice.
• The need for this kind of education grew quickly, especially among enterprises and the organization. That\\u2019s how my business grew and how I started to publish the online American Diversity Report.
• There were times when I decided to take what my friends call a \\u201creal job.\\u201d I was hired by a Jewish federation in Tulsa, Oklahoma to be its executive director. After that, I took another job as...'