May 23, 2010
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I support Ruby Veridiano in her bid to become Alicia Keys’ Head Blogger of IAAS.com (IAmASuperWoman.com). This decision came after carefully reading each entry from the three finalists, carefully considering their messages, and deciding who I felt had ”empowering content” and was “delivering vibrant and optimistic news, opinion, and entertainment “
While all of the final three candidates are excellent writers, I feel that Ruby’s entries rise above the rest. The one in particular that simply made me breathless was the one entitled Feeding Our Dreams: The Audacity of a Woman’s Achievement. This happens to be one on a topic that all three contestants wrote on, and these common entries help to serve as a foundation upon which I built my opinion. The topic was, “If you could have dinner with Three (3) Super Women, from ANY generation or time period, who would they be and why?”
Ruby’s response stands out because she chose not only two people from history, the great writer bell hooks and civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, but she also chose “A teenage version of my two-year old-niece Isabelle, who, in this metaphor, will be too young to understand love’s politic, but old enough to absorb the wisdom these women can offer.” She connected the past to the future–realizing that our futures are so dependent on the lessons we take from the past.
With all due respect, the responses from the other two contestants were more typical. While they chose amazing individuals, they chose individuals from history or from the present. Nobody but Ruby chose someone from the future.
Other entries also demonstrate Ruby’s empowering content and vibrant and optimistic news. She showcases other social justice-oriented businesses that do not compromise style in her entry Looking Good For The Movement. Ruby also describes examples of her ability to empower through her work with youth in her entry Raising the Roof (and the Classroom Standard), in which she writes, “Fist up, guards down–there is nothing more powerful than an idea born out of a revolution.” In a more recent entry she provides tips on building relationships in Building Networks Vs. Building Relationships. Finally, in her oldest entry, she reveals a personal memoir about her immigration experience to America in Style And Conviction, or Why You Can’t Fake Being Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez.
Ruby’s entries are incredibly, accessible, insightful, and inspiring. I support her in her bid to become the Head Blogger of IAAS.com. Do yourselves a favor and check out this super woman.
