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Pilar Stella recently released two books:
Seeking Serenity – a kids book about peace blessed by Nobel Peace Laureates including Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama (www.seekingserenitybook.com)
and
BEing the Present: 101 Ways to Inspire Living & Giving (www.beingthepresent.com).
Pilar was inspired to write her books through her work with young people, her passion around peace issues and work with organizations like LA Peace (www.lapeace.org) and PeaceJam (www.peacejam.org).

Pilar is the CEO and Founder of OneGiving™ (www.onegiving.com)—a global organization that empowers, inspires and connects people in giving. Through OneGiving™, gifts of every kind will be leveraged globally to create a significant flow of funding to vital organizations all around the world to create change on the planet. Pilar advises corporations, philanthropists and foundations to be more strategic in their giving and counsels investors in socially conscious investing and leveraging resources with media, policymakers, nonprofits and community.

Pilar co-founded the Center for Systems Integration in Denver, a for profit think tank (www.csi-policy.org) working across sectors/systems for social justice and policy change. She was also worked with Colorado Senate President Peter Groff and a collaborative of community partners to create the Colorado Multi-Ethnic Cultural Consortium(www.cmecc.org), a nonprofit committed to creating a unified voice in policy for communities of color. Pilar also does workshops with young people, women and other audiences about living in the moment and speaking their truth; and speaks on multicultural, peace, human rights, social justice, and other policy issues, on socially responsible giving or investing, and other topics to inspire action for change and making a difference on the planet. She has a Masters of Public Health in International and Global Policy from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a Bachelors of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Pilar lives in Venice Beach, California.

Pilar Stella recently released two books: Seeking Serenity – a kids book about peace blessed by Nobel Peace Laureates including Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama (www.seekingserenitybook.com) and BEing the Present: 101 Ways to Inspire Living & Giving (www.beingthepresent.com). Pilar was inspired to write her books through her work with young people, her passion around peace issues and work wi... More