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An Educational Series Session One
Here is session one, where Dr. Donna Beegle instructs on the foundational knowledge required to understand poverty, encouraging listeners to appreciate our neighbors who live below the poverty line. Based on her world-class research and life experience as the daughter of migrant workers, her insights push us to understand beyond stereotypes and into compassion and empathy.
Since 1989, Communication Across Barriers (CAB), a national and international gold standard consulting firm, has been serving professionals and entire communities to break the cycle of poverty in America. Dr. Donna Beegle, poverty expert, life-changing speaker, and recognized author, launched the company to provide meaningful, memorable, and realistic strategies for individuals, organizations, and communities that want to make a real difference in moving and keeping people out of poverty.
Dr. Beegle’s inspiring story of moving from 28 years of homelessness to achieving a doctorate and her groundbreaking work assisting people to escape poverty has been featured on the internet, in newspapers, and on television around the nation. She is presently completing a PBS documentary with award-winning producer George Rivera, and was featured on CNN in “The Other America” segment. Dr. Beegle has received numerous awards (i.e., National Speaker of the Year for the New Mexico Bar Foundation and the Oregon Ethics in Business award). In 2013 Donna was named Woman of Influence by the Portland Business Journal and received the Orchid Award, which honors women who are compelling, affect change, and represent their positions with strength, wisdom, and grace. Dr. Beegle was recently named a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Princeton Fellow through their Office of Governmental Relations.
