AwareNow: Issue 6: The America Edition

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KNOCKING DOWN THE FENCES A GOLD GLOVE, A FILM AND A PODCAST ARE JUST THE BEGINNING A must see social impact film about rising in the ranks as an elite female athlete, ‘Knocking Down The Fences’ is a short film starring A.J. Andrews. Allié and I had the pleasure of speaking with A.J. the other night, after she finished up on the field. Not only is she our Official Ambassador for Breast Cancer Awareness, she’s officially one of our favorite people to laugh with over video chat. - Jack M. JACK: We all face obstacles in life we need to get around, barriers we have to get over. You don't go around or over... you go through. 'Knocking Down THE Fences' is a powerful short film about you as the first woman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove. From this film, tell us about what you want people to learn 1) about you and 2) about life. A.J.: I want people to know that I am extremely hardworking and I will achieve anything that I set my mind to. I set my mind to being an example of limitless possibilities the day I made history as the first woman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove so that young women all around me know they are limitless as well. I believe that the word impossible is not a declaration but a DARE! Any extremely successful person in this world dared to chase their dreams no matter the circumstances. They dared to achieve the "impossible." Before 2016, the year I won the Gold glove it was "impossible" for a woman to win the award but now young girls

KNOCKING DOWN THE FENCES A MUST-SEE SHORT FILM ABOUT GOING ABOVE & BEYOND

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Articles inside

COOKING ITALIAN AND FEEDING AMERICA

5min
pages 70-75

SUSTAINABLE STEM

4min
pages 66-68

ONE MILLION LEADERS

6min
pages 62-64

KNOCKING DOWN THE FENCES

7min
pages 54-59

ESCAPE 2020

2min
pages 52-53

THE STATE OF THE PANDEMIC

1min
pages 50-51

MAKING HISTORY (AGAIN)

2min
pages 48-49

A WORK IN PROGRESS, A WORK OF ART

1min
pages 38-47

THIS IS AMERICA: FOUND IN TRANSLATION

2min
pages 36-37

INTERNAL ERROR

7min
pages 32-34

A FUTURE HISTORY

2min
pages 30-31

THE INTERSECTION OF DISABILITY, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE POLICE

12min
pages 26-29

HAUNTED 4TH OF JULY

3min
pages 24-25

PRINCIPLES OF WINNING

1min
pages 18-19

HASHTAG AMERICA

3min
pages 20-21, 23

DEDICATED TO REP. JOHN LEWIS

1min
page 2

COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

6min
pages 14-16

TO MAKE MANIFEST

3min
pages 10-13

TO MY FELLOW WHITE PEOPLE

3min
pages 8-9
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