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What prompted you to be a solo business practitioner?
I’m a natural researcher and that’s a solitary endeavor. As I continued my research into health and wellness topics (and was often asked to speak), it became clear that I needed to create my own business so that I could share information on a larger scale. I therefore created my own publishing company and all that goes…

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What prompted you to write your book, “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana”?
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied, not survivors of war to be respected. When I met Kamila and heard this story of young women who had managed to become breadwinners during years in which they could not even be on the street I thought it was a powerful example of how much work women do during…

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What prompted you to start your business?
I started my first photographic job in high school shooting portraits of graduating seniors. As a junior at Boston University, I got a summer internship with NewWorld Outlook Magazine in New York City as a staff photographer and writer. At one point, I went on a weeklong assignment to cover the economic situation in South America. The magazine was…

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What prompted you to start ‘Art in Giving’?
Art in Giving started with a painting my daughter Rachel created. She was 8 years old and she drew it at the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana Farber as she waited for her many doctors’ appointments.

A few years after she passed away, my husband and I established The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation. Its mission is to raise funds for pediatric cancer…

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