Media & Events
Accepted as a Member of WORLDWIDE WHO’S WHO–as of February 2014; Randi was named Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 in the Education Industry on April 2, 2014. She was also named 2015 Top Female Executive and 2015 Humanitarian of the Year. She was featured in the 2015 calendar with her profile and photo for the month of March.
Special Invitation to become a distinguished member of International Women’s Leadership Association in May 2014. Randi is now an Emerald level member and current Delegate.
She is an elite member of this Strathmore’s Worldwide Who’s Who and will receive a full page in its member book that is published this year.
She was named 2014-15 VIP Woman of the Year by National Association of Professional Women (NAPW).
3) International Association of Who’s Who honored Randi as its 2015 Professional of the Year.
4) Continental Who’s Who awarded her 2014 Pinnacle Professional Member.
5) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BUSINESS LEADERS
Recently selected as Editor of 2016; press release was released in early 2017
6) International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)
Press release in May and award at Gala Awards Event at Ritz Carlton Hotel, NYC, on December 16, 2017–Top Professional in Language Arts 2017
Top Female Professional 2018—Award Gala will be in December 2018 TBA
Will be featured in TIP magazine in 2018
7) Marquis Who’s Who
Became a lifetime member in July 2017
Named “A Woman of Excellence” in August 2017
Named a Top Professional in September 2017
Will be featured as Outstanding Author in POWER magazine in 2018
8) Co-Administrator of Arabian Online Press
9) Chief Editor/Writer for online magazine Morocco Pens
10) LinkedIn—member of this business association and connected to several educational groups within it and Google member
11) She was selected as Teacher of the Month in Cabell Records, 1989.
12) She graduated as Valedictorian of Moundsville High School, Class of 1967 and with honors from her university.
13) She has been featured in 2 Egyptian magazines and 2 Egyptian newspapers as well as 8 USA national radio interviews.
Randi has had the honor to work with such distinguished entrepreneurs as Steve Harrison, Nancy Matthews, and Beth Johnson who have become mentors to her.
Event–January 12, 2013 — Book Signing and Discussion about book with old and new friends at the El Sawy Culture Wheel Center in Cairo, Egypt
Newspaper Article—Al Shorouk Newspaper in Cairo, Egypt
January 15, 2013
page 16 article including photo of Randi
link to the article which is written in arabic—
http://www.shorouknews.com/news/view.aspx?cdate=16012013&id=f23f9c40-0d12-4c06-ae66-1bee804d8eb7
Event–January 19, 2013 — Lecture and Discussion Session on the book at Rise Up (a Language School for English and German being endorsed by Randi) from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m
2A Ahmed Lofty Elsayed Street
El Mesaha
El Haram, Giza, Egypt
Visit to a school for elementary students in Alexandria, Egypt—January 29, 2013
Discussed the book with the school supervisor Ashour Sure, the school principal Magdy Adly, and some teachers at a school called Port Said Experimental Language School.
Visit to the famous Alexandria Library, the oldest library in the world–January 29, 2013
Arrangements were made to present a hard copy of the book to be available for reading
in the library so Randi’s book will soon be a part of this prestigious library.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE IN MASRAWAIT ON MAY 29, 2013 written by my former Egyptian student and editor Shaima Mustafa. It discusses Randi’s book, her opinions about Egypt, Egyptian men and women, her students at the language school where she taught, Islam, the revolution, and problems she witnessed while living there plus some of the fascinating things she was able to do.
YOUTUBE VIDEO–The Longest and Best Egyptian Flags Ever (January 25, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxkoPRpyNSg&feature=share
This is an interview video of Randi made by International Women’s Leadership Association (IWLA). Randi is a delegate and will have her article “Taking the Needed Risks” in its Inspirational Woman Magazine (May/June edition) and will be featured on the cover page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Q2wBFQF4s
This is a video of Randi looking out a window from the fourteenth floor of her Cairo school SYE on Tahrir Street while she was watching young celebrating Egyptians carrying two huge flags from Giza Square to Tahrir Square on the first anniversary of their freedom revolution in January 2011.
RECENT EVENTS IN THE USA
RADIO INTERVIEWS DONE IN FEBRUARY 2013
1. www.toginet.com Author Talk with Steve Jorgenson, Feb. 24, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Randi is the last author to be interviewed on this program. She talks about the
various aspects of her book.
http://toginet.com/podcasts/authortalk/AuthorTalk_2013-02-24.mp3?type=podpage
2. www.toginet.com Wake Up We the People with George Stephenson, Feb. 25, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Randi is interviewed around 1:35 about her personal experiences, her protester
friends, and her views and opinions concerning the Egyptian revolution when she
lived there in 2011-12 and again in 2013.
http://toginet.com/podcasts/wakeupwethepeople/WakeUpWeThePeople_2013-02-25.mp3?type=podpage
3. Stu Taylor Interview with my photos included, April 22, 2013, 11:00 to 11:10 a.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWwB381ANU
Randi is interviewed about her personal experiences, her protester
friends, and her views and opinions concerning the Egyptian revolution when she
lived there in 2011-12 and again in 2013.
4. http://www.americasradionewsnetwork.com/
This is the link to the network only—this is the link to the actual interview. Click on the audio bar and move it to the time of 1:28 to listen to Randi’s interview.
http://www.americasradionewsnetwork.com/uploads/mp3/arnnmm/ARNNMM_06-17-2013.mp3
Interview was done on June 17, 2013 about Randi’s book and her real life experience dealing with living in Egypt during its revolutionary periods and violent events. Her views of the new democracy, the passion and dreams of the modern Egyptians and the current political situation under President Morsi were discussed, too.
Interview on “The Anthony McCarthy Show” at 5:00 p.m. on August 17, 2013 on WEAA FM 88.9 at Morgan State University. Randi discussed the current political situation in Egypt after the June 3o Egyptian protest and the ousting of Morsi. She also briefly discussed her book.
6. http://www.talkofconnecticut.com/
Interview on “The Mary Jones Show” at 5:30 -5:48 p.m. on October 22, 2013. Discussion was about Randi’s life in Egypt as a teacher, her two new schools there, her experiences living there during the revolution, her close and unique friendships, her views on the current Egyptian situation, and her hopes for Egypt in the future.
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCrPovPRA0
Interview with George Stephenson at toginet.com on his show “Author Talk” which was aired on November 3, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. EST. Randi discussed the latest information about her book and her new school 6 October Nursery in Egypt with her partners Samar Farouk and Haitham Anwar which will open soon. Randi will be teaching via Skype from her home in Georgia using fictional children’s stories from a future book that she is currently writing. She also discussed the current political situation in Egypt as she personally knows it from her many Egyptian friends there as well as her dreams for Egypt and her own personal dreams and hopes to spread her messages and insights around the world through her words. She talked about her website which now includes over 50 blogs about important and interesting topics along with a great deal of information about her book.
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSb8dmXoz4
Interview with Jay Douglas Barker at togninet.com on the show “Author Talk” which aired on November 28, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. EST. Randi continued to share her interesting and exciting experiences in Egypt before she wrote her book and after she returned for a short visit in January 2013. She also discussed the many projects that have resulted because of her book and her continued involvement in Egypt and the Arab world.
RANDI’S EGYPTIAN PROJECTS AND THEIR FACEBOOK NAME
1. Rise Up—Randi’s new English and German language school in Cairo with her partners Ehab Mohamed and Ahmed (Hitch) Mohamed. This school will provide a high quality education as well as demonstrate love and respect for its students. Sadly this center was forced to close due to the economic and political situation in Egypt.
2. World Peace Forest (Africa)—a project Randi is helping her Muslim Egyptian friend Max Hassouna complete that hopes to reforest needed areas in Egypt and Africa with the miracle tree the Moringa Oleifera tree by using international university students to do the actual planting of these amazing life-saving trees. His farm in Egypt is called the Jesus Moringa Farm which Max has willed to the Coptic Christian Church. This is another way Max hopes to demonstrate love and brotherhood to all people of different cultures and faiths.
3. 6 October Nursery (Egypt)– Randi’s new nursery for children ages 2 thru 5 with her partner Samar Farouk and her uncle. Randi will teach these young children English using her new nursery rhymes and children’s short stories written specifically for this group of children. This teaching will be conducted via Skype in Randi’s home in Georgia and a large TV screen at the school. A phonetics room is being created specifically for this instruction. The school opened but after less than one year was forced to close to a serious illness of Samar.
4. Africa Nomads Conservation (Kenya)–an environmental conservation organization based in Kenya with a focus to help the nomads and pastoral community as well as to improve the environment. It believes that improving the environment is the best tool to fight poverty and hunger.
BOOK SIGNING—FITNESS 19
4045 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lilburn, Georgia
(Publix Shopping Center)
February 28, 2013
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
PRESENTATION OF BOOK TO JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY AND CENTER
February 28, 2013
A hard back copy of the book was given to the library
A hard back copy of the book plus personal letter was presented to President Carter
(A picture of a portrait found in the Military Museum in the Citadel in Cairo,
Egypt, of the President signing the 1973 Peace Treaty between the leaders of
Egypt and Israel is in the book as well as a reference to this historic event on
page 24.)
February 7, 2014— Las Vegas, Nevada
Randi pitched her book to twenty Hollywood movie producers in a two day event called Pitchfest Las Vegas sponsored by her publisher Author House. The event occurred in the ballroom of the Monte Carlo Casino and Resort on the strip of Las Vegas, Nevada.
NEW VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE CREATED BY RANDI D. WARD (AUTHOR)
1) Because I Believed in Me (My Egyptian Fantasy Came True)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utIHcv5EIZk
2) Artist Ahmed Sami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvHybORjKo
3) Sculptor Khaled Elmahy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khoQyAIYNk
4) Project World Peace Forest (Africa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVWuv-wOx0
5) Rise Up English and German Language School— my new school in Cairo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMMrR9Zoo0
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS UNITED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFWP76u-yA
7) MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS UNITED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE716ihBs20
8) Book Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_xHVN9SpE&feature=youtu.be
9) World Peace Forest (Africa) Humanitarian Project in Egypt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aft_JZRHkEE
10) Meeting the Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXsVkfgpL8
11) Princess Anna Belle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-jKIeOT-M
12) Africa Nomads Conservation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kemoqSA-TM
13) Youtube Channel Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76CDRhQPqE
This is an INTERVIEW VIDEO done on March 11, 2018. The question was the following: “Why is learning English beneficial?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9nRWtWAeI The interview was conducted by the talented Moroccan English Teacher Mohamed Ouhssine for his YouTube channel ELS (English Learning Space).
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