RE: Quick question/request

Hey Barrett,

Thanks so much for the quick response—that would be fantastic. I really appreciate you sharing it around. And I’d be more than happy to do an email interview, or put you in touch with some other great people here at Pathfinder for any questions I can’t answer. Great suggestion on the NGO front. Looking forward to chatting more soon.

All the best,

Jaime-Alexis

From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:21 PM
To: Jaime-Alexis Fowler
Subject: Re: Quick question/request

Howdy, Jaime-Alexis-

Nice to hear from you and to learn that you're putting your communications skills to noble use; many of our other classmates appear to have gone mercenary.

I'd be happy to help promote this. I've just forwarded your e-mail to my contact at TED, and will also send it along to some fairly prominent bloggers and commentators I know. Additionally, I'll see if I can arrange to do a piece on Pathfinder and your upcoming campaign for some print publication; if so, we can do an e-mail interview between the two of us for additional material. At the very least, I can do a write-up or two for True/Slant, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and perhaps a couple of other venues, while also forwarding the info along to other journalists who might be interested.

Off the top of my head, I would suggest obtaining contact info for directors of communications at other NGOs and asking them if they'd be willing to promote the campaign within their own organizations as well. I'll see what else I can think of and get back to you soon.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jaime-Alexis Fowler <JFowler@pathfind.org> wrote:

Hey Barrett,

Hope you’re doing well. It’s been what—since high school I think—since we’ve touched base, but I have been actively following your writing for VF, HuffPost, etc and have a quick question/request. Since you’re a writing/journalist guru, I’d love any tips, ideas or suggestions you have about sharing a new initiative Pathfinder just launched yesterday: 200 Thousand for 200 Million. The goal is to achieve 200,000 shares of the videos on the www.Girl2Woman.org site by International Women’s Day to raise critical awareness about the more than 200 million women around the world who lack access to modern contraceptives. As 2010 International Women’s Day approaches with the theme, "Equal Rights, Equal Opportunity," we believe a crucial aspect of improving women’s lives is missing in the current development dialogue: reproductive health. So we’re trying to raise as much awareness as possible.

We’re pushing it out and sharing with a range of new media sources…feminist bloggers, reproductive health activists/advocates, etc but we’d love to get some traditional media coverage as well. Do you know anyone who might be interested in this subject matter? Or who might be interested in learning about the challenge? If you have any ideas, I’m all ears J

More information about the challenge is available here: http://www.pathfind.org/site/PageServer?pagename=News_International_Womens_Day_2010_Challenge.

Many, many thanks in advance for your help. On a personal note, would love to hear more about your writing and life in NY. Maybe we can grab coffee some time when I’m down in the area?

All the best,

Jaime-Alexis

Jaime-Alexis Fowler, MA

Online and New Media Editor

Pathfinder International
(617) 924-7200 x204
www.pathfind.org
jfowler@pathfind.org

@JaimeAlexis

For more than 50 years, Pathfinder International has changed and saved the lives of women and their families throughout the developing world by increasing access to quality reproductive health services.