Jane Blanchard interviews Jennifer
Massie. Jennifer is the Florida Regional
Director and Haiti Program Coordinator for Lifelink
International Adoption.
At Lifelink, she has been uniting orphaned children around the globe
with U.S. families since 1994. Her work has taken her to China, the
Philippines, Hong Kong, Guatemala and Haiti, where she has witnessed
the plight of orphaned children and other children at risk. She has a
Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Alabama and a
Bachelor’s in Biology from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Ms. Massie is the past president of the Florida Association of Licensed
Adoption Agencies and served as a Board Member of the Florida Adoption
Information Center. She is a native of the Sarasota/Bradenton area.
This week’s female musician:
Beth Marshall is a modern folk musician.
She is a
working mom with three great children who has known since she was a
little girl that she was meant to play music and write songs. SheI
trained to be an opera singer in high school, but has not had vocal
training since then. Beth says, :It has always come easily to
me. I
keep hearing songs in my head, and I must birth them.”
She has two CDs The first is “Original Material”. Beth is donating all
profits from the sale of this album to a shelter for abused women,
children, and men. The second CD is Morning Train which she plays
guitar and keyboard, and has friends accompanying her with violen, sax,
gourdalin, and harmonica.
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