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| Angela Mason Founder |
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| Angela comforting a Bosnian war widow. |
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| Angela was trained as an actress in her native Great Britain before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked for many years as a successful executive recruiter. Her life changed dramatically one night in 1990 after watching a television segment about the conditions in Romanian orphanages. After viewing the horrific images of children left languishing without human contact, Angela responded by creating a nonprofit humanitarian agency named Touch Romania, which brought relief to hundreds of disabled children. In 1993, Angela joined World Vision where she has served as Northern California Regional Director and more recently as Special Advocate for Women and Children in Crisis. In these roles, Angela has produced award-winning TV news documentaries about issues such as "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, the 2004 Asia Tsunami, commercial sexual exploitation of children in Thailand, child soldiers in Northern Uganda and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Angela has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Soroptimist International Award for "Women Helping Women," the CBS/San Francisco Chronicle "Jefferson Award" and the ABC/Johnson & Johnson "Remarkable Woman Award" presented on the morning show The View. Her documentary about the genocide in Rwanda won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award for CBS. In all, Angela is known as an inspirational speaker, storyteller and outspoken advocate for women and children around the world. Click here to see the video by CBS KPIX-TV honoring Angela for the Jefferson Award.
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| Marc with wife and Clarence Advisor Kelly Ross Manashil in Orissa, India | ||||||||||||||
| Marc co-founded The Clarence Foundation in 1999 and has since spearheaded our global grant making and giving circle programs. Marc began his experience in the human rights movement as a Volunteer Coordinator for Amnesty International. His contact with survivors of human rights abuses inspired him to enter the field of clinical social work, where he spent many years assisting marginalized populations in health care and mental health settings. Marc has traveled and volunteered extensively around the globe. Prior to starting The Clarence Foundation, he served as a consultant to The Seva Foundation and as Program Director of Volunteers for Inter-American Development Assistance, a medical relief organization working in Latin America. Marc holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from U.C. Santa Barbara and a Masters degree in Social Welfare from U.C. Berkeley. His writings have appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Foundation News and Commentary, Alliance Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News. Marc, his wife Kelly, and their seven year-old daughter Ella live in Oakland, California. Download Marc's recent articles on global giving after the tsunami and African debt relief after the G8 meeting in July 2005. |
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