Reply #27: That's so sad. [View All]

[globalvillage]

What a shame to teach children that sort of hatred.
Is this the person her mother wants her to fear to the point she won't touch a condiment with her name on it?

Teresa Heinz Kerry
AWARDS
Women's Leadership Award - Save the Children (2003)
World Ecology Award International Center for Tropical Ecology University of Missouri (2003)
Albert Schweitzer Gold medal for Humanitarianism (2003)
Carlow College's National Woman of Spirit (2001)
Community Service Human Rights Award from the American Jewish Committee
Boston Bar Federation Public Service Award (2001)
Art Rooney Award from the Catholic Youth Association of Pittsburgh (2002)
Gold Medal conferred by the American Institute of Architects in Pittsburgh (2001)
Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus lifetime achievement award (2003)
UTNE Reader's 100 Visionaries (1995)
National Council for Research on Women “Women Who Make a Difference” (2005)

COMMITTEES, MEMBERSHIPS
Brookings Institution trustee
Visiting Committee for the Kennedy School
Harvard University environmental committee
American Institute for Public Service (Jefferson Awards) board member
Carnegie Mellon University trustee
American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
Heinz Awards – founder
Heinz Endowments – chair
Heinz Family Philanthropies - chair
Women's Health and the Environment conferences – sponsor and host
Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) – founder
Women's Campaign Fund – co-founder
Environmental Defense - board member
Heinz Center – vice chair
Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research – founder
John Heinz Environmental Fellows Program for the United Negro College Fund – founder
Earth Communications Office - advisory board
Second Nature (literacy) – co-founder
Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning – co-founder
Center for Children's Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine – advisory council

HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREES
Beloit College (Wisconsin)
University of Massachusetts (Boston),
Bank Street College of Education (New York),
Pine Manor College and Clark University (Massachusetts),
Carnegie Mellon University
The Medical College of Pennsylvania
Drexel University
Washington and Jefferson College
Carlow College

EDUCATION
BA romance languages and literature - University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
Interpreters School of the University of Geneva
LANGUAGES
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese



I just love THK.