Impatient Optimists
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Mary Pedersen

Title Senior Program Assistant, Pacific Northwest Initiatives
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mary Pedersen is a senior program assistant in Pacific Northwest Initiatives at the foundation.

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A Northwest Journey: Partnering with Native Communities

August 08, 2011 / Mary Pedersen

To all of you. All of you are my relations.

This begins the protocol for coming ashore at the Intertribal Canoe Journey. Once used as both transportation and as a spiritual vessel, the Pacific Coast First Nations’ canoe tradition faded with the use of motor boats in the late 1800’s.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

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  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

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