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• Dr. Pasick is accepting new clients, after a leave of absence to work in Rwanda.
• Pat applies to deliver a workshop on Helping Parents Understand Ethnic Identity at the 2009 APA conference.
• Collaborators at Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan, meet with Pat to apply for grants to help fund Stories For Hope (SFH).
• The Ministry of Sports and Culture (Rwanda) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Stories For Hope, and agrees to fund start-up costs.
• Pat's new book project, Preparing the Way: Raising Strong Children in a Still-Racial World, is shopped among publishers.
• In NYC Pat meets with her new literary agent, Anna Ghosh, partner at Scovil, Gavil, and Ghosh.
• A column "Lessons from Rwanda" is published. click here
• Pat expands her professional network, joining the Asian-American Psychological Association, and the National Assoc. for Multicultural Educators.
• Stories For Hope-Rwanda (SFH)is certified by Rwanda, to be an International Non-governmental Organization (INGO).
• The New York Times publishes Pat's Letter to the Editor: click here
• SFH sets up an office in the Remera sector outside Kigali.
• SFH hires Evas Kyomugisha as in-country director, and John Bosco Bugingo, as attorney.
• On a fourth visit to Rwanda, Pat obtains a Letter of Agreement from the Ministry of Sports and Cultur, to conduct the pilot of Stories For Hope.
• An Emmy award-winning producer begins talks with Pat about a documentary of her work in Rwanda.
• Pat begins a writing collaboration with the brother of a Rwandan genocide victim.
• On a fifth trip to Rwanda, Pat obtains fund for the pilot of Stories For Hope.
• Pat meets Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, and makes her own tape with son Daniel, in Lower Manhattan.
• The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, receives Pat's draft of "The Origins of Leadership: Personal Stories from the Top 100 Leaders in Rwanda.
• "Re-Storying Rwanda" The Republic of Rwanda considers Patricia's proposal to bring a mobile storytelling unit around the country, to help Rwanda's first generation to be born after the genocide.
• Patricia makes a third visit to Rwanda, delivering over $4500 in donations to 15 school children needing tuition assistance, penpal letters from three Michigan schools, and a mental health proposal to the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture. Work on leadership stories continues.
• Presentation to Northville Public Schools on The College Transition
• Visit to StoryCorps headquarters in New York.

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