2000 |
- Began Veritas Policy Forums on Capitol Hill to highlight public policy questions confronting Legislators and top aides. Presenters included: Allan Carlson, Francis Fukuyama, Danielle Crittenden, Mona Charen and Jana Novak. The forums included:
- America’s Child Care “Crisis”
- Violence Against Women
- Women and Welfare Reform
- Teen Pregnancy and Abstinence Programs
- Began producing bi-monthly Data Digests - short papers analyzing and providing commentary on policy issues or cultural trends
- Helped draft and lobby for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
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2001 |
- Authored Gaining Ground: A Profile of American Women in the Twentieth Century
- Documented the trends in well-being of American women from 1900-2000
- Gaining Ground used as the major research source for PBS documentary, “Is Marriage Just a Piece of Paper?”
- Washington Times article, “Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper” provided the PBS documentary title
- This research tool used by scholars and writers nationwide
- Release of A Different Kind of Strength, co-authored by Mrs. Beverly LaHaye
- Chosen as a Conservative Book of the Month
- Released in paperback twice as The Strength of a Godly Woman and A Woman’s Path to True Significance
- Translated into three languages
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2002 |
- Served the President as an Official United States Delegate to the United Nations Children’s Summit
- Major speeches published and widely distributed in brochures
- Began presenting Staley Lectures at colleges and universities such as Taylor, Vanguard and Messiah
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2003 |
- Nominated for the Bradley Prize by the Heritage Foundation for her influence on contemporary issues
- Served the President again as an Official United States Delegate to the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women
- Profiled in A Celebration of Women, a publication of profiles of outstanding “women we admire
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2004 |
- Presented a plenary address at the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family at the Kuala Lampur regional celebration
- Major address, “Cohabitation: Consequences for Mothers and Children,” was included in the official record of proceedings of the Doha conference in Qatar
- Reported on pivotal issues and events at the Republican and Democrat political conventions
- Published election analyses and conducted media commentaries on major television and cable networks
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2005 |
- Began a 2-year grant project from the U.S. State Department to combat sex trafficking in Mexico
- Trained 15 Mexican leaders and worked with 6 NGOs in a project that resulted in over 7,000 people trained to recognize and combat sex trafficking
- A victim’s shelter was designed and opened for rescued girls to seek rehabilitation and restoration
- There are 12 girls there now, the youngest is just 13-years-old
- Presented a seminar during the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women in New York
- Spoke at World Congress of Families in Mexico City (spoke previously at WCF in Geneva, 1999)
- Became a syndicated columnist for United Press International and a regular contributor to Human Events
- Worked with the anti-trafficking coalition on crafting the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005
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2006 |
- Invited and attended the White House signing ceremony for the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005
- Awarded the BLI “Abolitionist” certificate for work in combating sex trafficking
- Award for work in promoting abstinence from the Abstinence Clearinghouse
- Identified, along with the Beverly LaHaye Institute, by the Church Report as one of its “Top Twenty Influencers”
- Participated in the PBS documentary, “When Women Rule the World”
- Became a columnist for Townhall
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2007 |
- Appointed to the five-member management council (decision-making body) for the World Congress of Families and gave a plenary address at its congress in Warsaw, Poland
- Authored a chapter on cohabitation in the three-volume major research compilation, The Family in the New Millennium, published by Praeger Publishers
- Developed an anti-sex trafficking training manual and seminar and presented workshops at CWA’s National Leadership Conference and at Regent University for law students, local lawyers and law enforcement personnel
- Spoke at the International Family Life Conference in Mexicali, Mexico
- Taught a summer school class on “Feminist Theology” for graduate students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas
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2008 |
- Worked behind-the-scenes on the passage of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008—which includes the Zurita Amendment
- Attended the White House signing ceremony for the TVPRA of 2008 as one of only ten NGO leaders to be invited
- Named “Women of the Year” by The Centers for Decency; Chuck Colson was named “Man of the Year”
- Interview on Don Kroah’s WAVA radio talk-show was recognized as “Outstanding Feature Program” for the year
- Keynote speaker at the Real Women of Canada event in Ottawa
- Became a contributor to American Thinker
- Gave testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the U.N.’s CEDAW Treaty
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2009 |
- Authored, Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children’s Well-Being in America
- Participated in the planning session for the World Congress of Families in Amsterdam
- Gave testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the provisions in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
- Served on the planning committee for and gave a plenary address at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
- Gave a closing plenary address at the World Congress of Families V in Amsterdam.
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