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“Emerge Lanka Foundation relaunches Centre for Reintegration,” Sunday Observer, September 1, 2024
“Foundation Re-Launches Centre for Re-Integration,” Daily Mirror, August 27, 2024
“If That's Leading, I'm In: Women Redefining Leadership,” by Julia Middleton, October 14, 2023
“How to Be A Change Agent,” [Audio Podcast Episode] In We Are For Good, August 21, 2023
“Energy 2: Managing Energy,” [Audio Podcast Episode] in Women Emerging, May 10, 2023
“Centering Community + Ethical Storytelling,” [Audio Podcast Episode] In We Are For Good, March 29, 2023
“Founder Alia Whitney-Johnson tells us about Emerge Global and why she started this organization that supports young survivors of sexual abuse,” [Facebook video interview] High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives, Dec 4, 2022
“Stringing lives together, bead by bead,” by Dilshani Palugaswewa, Ceylon Today, November 19, 2022
“Beads for Change: Survivors of Abuse Rebuild their Lives,” UNDP Sri Lanka, March 16, 2022
“Systems Thinking & Leadership - Making and Leading Change,” [Audio Podcast Episode] In Women Emerging, May 10, 2022
“This Sri Lankan jewelry enterprise is a study in systems thinking,” by Meredith Somers, MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, Jan 24, 2022
“San Francisco Office Of The Mayor: Mayor London Breed Celebrates Opening Of Drop-In Resource Center For Youth,” Patch, October 22, 2021
“Mayor London Breed Celebrates Opening of Drop-In Resource Center for Youth,” Office of the Mayor, City and County of San Francisco, October 20, 2021
“SF receives grant to combat youth human trafficking, exploitation,” by Jerold Chinn, SFBay.ca, July 10, 2019
“Mayor London Breed Announces $9 Million in State Funding to Serve Survivors of Human Trafficking,” City and County of San Francisco, Office of the Mayor, July 10, 2019
“Alumna works to help exploited youth find their inner power,“ NCSSM News, January 11, 2019
“'I am Jasmine Strong': How These Real Life Superheroes Are Fighting Back Against Exploitation,” Dressember, March 6, 2019
“Without family, U.S. children in foster care easy prey for human traffickers” by Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters, May 3, 2018
“Let’s End the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth,” The Philanthropy Workshop
“Survivors Emerge Victorious” by Shaahidah Riza, Ceylon Today (Sri Lanka), September 20, 2016
“Emerge Lanka Named Runner-Up At Project Inspire 2015,” Ceylon Business Reporter (Sri Lanka), November 18, 2015
“Emerge Lanka Named Runner-Up At Project Inspire,” AdaDerana — BizEnglish.lk (Sri Lanka), November 17, 2015
“A fast-track career built on passion to serve,” NCSSM News, March 26, 2015
“Beading together a better future,” The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), November 23, 2014
“Inspiring Woman Leader Spotlight: Alia Whitney-Johnson,” by Megan Foo, Women LEAD (Nepal), April 14, 2014
“Profile with Alia Whitney-Johnson,” The Rhodes Project, 2013
“Sri Lanka Struggles to Contain a Growing Epidemic of Child Abuse,”TIME Asia, August 13, 2013
“Beads of Happiness,” The Nation (Sri Lanka), June 16, 2013
“A New Support System: Helping to empower survivors of sexual abuse, the Emerge Lanka Foundation has created a community of caring for young girls…” The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), June 16, 2013
“Alumna Helps Ostracized Girls Build New Lives,” Slice of MIT (USA), April 24, 2013
“Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation,” Chapter 19 by Alia Whitney-Johnson, uses Emerge as a case study to illustrate the “do good well” method in action. The book has become a best-seller on Amazon.com and received fantastic reviews from critical players in the field such as Muhammad Yunus, Nicholas Kristoff, and the founder of Kiva.org.
“16 Notable Facebook Pages By Anti-Violence Against Women Organisations,” The Pixel Project, Dec 6, 2012
“Women in the World: Emerge Global,” Creative Women’s Circle (Australia), September 7, 2012
“‘Emerge’ing from the Dark: Therapy Through Jewellery Making,“ Sunday Leader (Sri Lanka), June 24, 2012
“Inspiring Social Businesses,” Givology Blog, March 4, 2011
“Stringing together a lifeline of colourful beads,“ The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), October 24, 2010
Good Morning Sri Lanka, September 2, 2010
“The Ethical Sourcing Forum,” March 18-19, 2010
“Emerge Global Jewelry,” Dash Pinch Smidgen Blog, December 21, 2009
“Three Ways to Make Your Jewelry Help More than Just Your Wardrobe,” She Finds, May 12, 2009
“Investing in Abuse Victims, Bead by Bead,” BU Today, February 13, 2009
“Emerge Helps Abused Girls One Bead at A Time,” The Wonderfish Creative Solutions Blog, February 25, 2009
“Ethical Fashionista,” VERVE Magazine, January 17, 2009
“Art Changing Lives,” Spectrum Magazine, Winter 2008
“Traumatized girls EMERGE with dazzling skills,” Daily News (Sri Lanka), November 28, 2008
“You Can Be the Difference: How One MIT Student is Working to Help Young Girls in Sri Lanka,” The Tech, October 24, 2008
“Sant Bani School Sponsoring Alia Whitney-Johnson Talk,” The Laconia Daily Sun, October 2008
“Gilford library setting for talk on global service,” Foster’s Daily Democrat, October 1, 2008
“This is the student. These are the beads. And these are the girls that they help.” Boston Globe, April 24, 2008
“MIT Student Organizes Jewelry-Making Charity for Sri Lanka,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 24, 2008
“The Person Who Inspired me to Start this Blog,” The Humanitarian Blog, December 9, 2007
“She Transforms Women’s Lives,” Glamour Magazine, June 2007
“Building the Aesthetic Voice,” Awakenings, April 2007
“Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka,” MITAdmissions Blog, November 9, 2006
“Emerge: A Tool for Transformation,” Awakenings, November 2006
“Sophomore’s project aids Sri Lankan girls’ home,” MIT Tech Talk, March 15, 2006