The digital economy loves to talk about innovation. It talks far less about access.

As artificial intelligence accelerates, tech valuations soar, and governments race toward digital transformation, one question sits uncomfortably beneath the headlines: Who is being prepared to participate—and who is being systematically left out?

Hermina Johnny is not interested in incremental change. She is interested in structural correction.

Born in Saint Lucia and shaped by years of living and working across the United States and Europe, Johnny has positioned herself at the intersection of education, economic strategy, and gender equity. As Founder and Executive Director of the Aspire Artemis Foundation, she is working to redesign the pipeline into science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM)—with a deliberate focus on girls and underrepresented communities.

And she is unapologetic about the stakes.

“Digital transformation without intentional inclusion doesn’t close gaps—it widens them.”

From Global Policy To Ground-Level Access

Johnny’s academic background spans international relations, economics, anthropology, and international law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and completed an LL.M. in International Law and International Relations in Brussels, later pursuing research in constitutionalism and fundamental rights.

But rather than remaining in policy circles, she moved toward execution.

Global development frameworks routinely articulate commitments to equity. Yet implementation often stalls at the structural level. Johnny saw that disconnect firsthand.

So she built an institution designed to close it.

Education As Economic Infrastructure

Through the Aspire Artemis Foundation, Johnny develops STEAM-focused leadership programs, global symposia, and digital literacy initiatives that go beyond exposure. The organization integrates arts into STEM disciplines—not as decoration, but as strategic design—training young people to think adaptively in a workforce defined by rapid change.

Her framing is deliberately economic.

STEAM education, she argues, is not a social side project. It is workforce architecture.

“If education isn’t treated as infrastructure, we shouldn’t be surprised when opportunity collapses under pressure.”

Under her leadership, the foundation has convened programming connected to international development discussions and United Nations–related venues, reinforcing a simple but disruptive thesis: innovation ecosystems that exclude women are economically inefficient.

The conversation, she insists, must shift from representation optics to structural preparation.

Encouragement is not a strategy. Infrastructure is.

Small States, Global Systems — And Female Leadership

Johnny’s work also challenges geographic bias in global innovation narratives. Participation in forums linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN General Assembly, and the ECOSOC Science, Technology and Innovation Forum places her within high-level policy discussions.

At the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), debates centered on resilience and connectivity. For Johnny, the message was direct: small island nations cannot diversify their economies without digital capability.

And digital capability does not appear spontaneously. It is built—intentionally.

As a woman leader from a small island state, Johnny’s presence in these arenas disrupts two assumptions at once: that innovation leadership belongs to large economies, and that systems change is driven primarily by traditional power centers.

“Geography should not determine destiny. Neither should gender.”

Strategy Meets Execution

Before founding her nonprofit, Johnny built experience in business strategy and legal advisory work, including corporate and intellectual property matters. That foundation shapes her leadership style—analytical, cross-sector, and systems-focused.

But she refuses to operate solely at altitude.

She continues to teach and develop educational materials, maintaining direct engagement with learners. The result is rare: a leader equally fluent in boardroom strategy and classroom realities.

In conversations about women in technology, she pushes back against surface-level diversity narratives.

Representation without preparation, she argues, sets women up to enter systems that were never designed for them to succeed.

Structured pathways, market-aligned skills, mentorship networks, and institutional accountability are non-negotiable.

The Real Leadership Test

The digital economy disproportionately rewards early exposure and sustained access. Johnny’s work is built around intervening before exclusion calcifies into inevitability.

By positioning STEAM education as both an equity imperative and an economic growth strategy, she reframes inclusion not as charity—but as competitiveness.

In her view, the most dangerous myth in innovation culture is that talent naturally rises.

Talent rises when infrastructure supports it.

“The question isn’t whether women can lead in technology. The question is whether systems are willing to evolve fast enough to make room.”

In the expanding landscape of women in leadership, Hermina Johnny represents a category of leader that is increasingly impossible to ignore: not symbolic, not peripheral—but systemic.

She is not asking to be included in the digital economy.

She is helping decide who gets to build it.

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When people walk away, let them.

Your future is not about people

who walk away. It’s about the people

who stay in it for the ride.

Dear Friends and Members,

Happy and Healthy Holidays to ALL.

Good News Corporation, est. in 2002, has been helping other nonprofits, organizations and individuals for many years, in fact next year will be our 20th Anniversary. We raised money for Katrina Victims, those without food in Africa and brought recognition to the International Day of Peace, September, 21. www.peacedayparty.org.

NOW, we would love for you to continue to help the world know about the concerns for WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). Why, because people die without it, some say a billion plus are in jeopardy. This is not Good News and we have been involved for 20 years already with our show The Water Hour and our associate Phil Sauers helped create World Water Day. FYI, our new site is being worked on www.worldwaterday.TV. Our event will focus on INNOCENT CHILDREN.

We will be partnering and giving money to organizations that are “Hands on the Ground” saving lives. We will have major events on March 22, 2022 for World Water Day. We have on hold Times Square, The Great Lawn/Central Park and the Centennial Memorial Hall at the Salvation Army. All very powerful venues.

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I love this quote and it now serves to guide me to embrace EVERY circumstance I find myself in. If I can’t embrace it (some challenges are harder to embrace than others) then I do my very best to merely accept it, not to resist it.

And that’s likely the miraculous key to the quote… that when you live this quote, you cease being in so much resistance to your life.

My whole life is better because of this practice.

I have a much friendlier relationship to life. I don’t view things as “happening TO me.” I view things as happening FOR me.

And for me in a very specific way. Happening to help me drop my inner resistance to what is, and come back into alignment with the present moment.

Einstein said the important question was, “Is it a friendly or unfriendly universe?”

This quote has helped me become clear that it is a friendly universe. That my whole life gets better (quiet magically I’d say) when I am friendlier with the present moment.

And now you know the only quote that is framed on my wall. The other day I was watching Oprah interview Eckhart Tolle and she said, “I love your quote… “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience that you’re having? Because you’re having it.”

I hope you love it as well.

May it serve you into a friendlier relationship with your life.

Sincerely,
Patrick

SPEAKERS, SEEKERS, AND ENTREPRENEURS

I’m going to be writing much more in the next year. 2017 was an amazing year in my life and it gave me so much I want to share with others. Speaking tips. Bitcoin tips. Presence Practice Tips. Passion Tips. And tips for living better than you ever have.

1. I’ll be sharing secrets to being an amazing speaker and getting paid for it. (I got my biggest speaking paychecks of my career this year, and I love the craft more than ever before). If you desire to be a speaker, I can give you a ton of tips to accelerate you into this amazing profession.

2. I also share a ton of tips on the most important and beneficial thing I’ve ever learned or done, which is my “presence practice.” I’m 4 years deep into it now being the most important thing I do every single day. And it has completely TOTALLY changed my life. – And in 2018, I’ll be making a full length feature film about it, and would love to share what I learn from traveling the world to interview “Awakened people.”

3. And of course, I’ll share everything I know about living passionate and purposeful.

I’m 51 now, and I’ve feel like I have more to share than ever before in my life. I’m grateful for life and I want to help as many people as I can be as grateful for their life as I am for mine.

But I don’t want to be emailing ANYONE who doesn’t open my emails. That just costs me money for no good reason.

So love me? Yes? Then stop by and discover my blog: https://patrickcombs.com/blog/. Or drop me an email.

Don’t love me? Please unsubscribe right now. The link is below in this email. It only takes one click. No hard feelings. Bon voyage. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

You’re the best!

Patrick Combs
https://patrickcombs.com
San Diego

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“Through this thorough portrait, “Love’s Prophet” emerges as an exemplar of enjoying an examined life to its fullest potential.”
—Publishers Weekly

“The brilliantly comprehensive study of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm’s (1900–1980) many “lives” as a clinician, philosopher, social critic and political activist…Academic biography at its best.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Accessible to general readers – a sympathetic, stimulating biography of one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.”
—Library Journal (starred review)

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing love—which, he insisted, was nothing if it did not involve joyful contact with others and humanity at large. Admired all over the world, Fromm continues to inspire with his message of universal brotherhood and quest for lasting peace.

The first systematic study of Fromm’s influences and achievements, this biography revisits the thinker’s most important works, especially Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving, which conveyed important and complex ideas to millions of readers. The volume recounts Fromm’s political activism as a founder and major funder of Amnesty International, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and other peace groups. Consulting rare archival materials across the globe, Lawrence J. Friedman reveals Fromm’s support for anti-Stalinist democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe and his efforts to revitalize American democracy. For the first time, readers learn about Fromm’s direct contact with high officials in the American government on matters of war and peace while accessing a deeper understanding of his conceptual differences with Freud, his rapport with Neo-Freudians like Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan, and his association with innovative artists, public intellectuals, and world leaders. Friedman elucidates Fromm’s key intellectual contributions, especially his innovative concept of “social character,” in which social institutions and practices shape the inner psyche, and he clarifies Fromm’s conception of love as an acquired skill. Taking full stock of the thinker’s historical and global accomplishments, Friedman portrays a man of immense authenticity and spirituality who made life in the twentieth century more humane than it might have been.

Lawrence J. Friedman is a professor in Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative and a professor emeritus at Indiana University. The author of eight scholarly books and more than fifty articles, he has lectured in eleven countries and was named International Writer of the Year for 2003 by the International Biographical Center. His works include Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik Erikson; Menninger: The Family and the Clinic; Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism; and The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South.

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“Through this thorough portrait, “Love’s Prophet” emerges as an exemplar of enjoying an examined life to its fullest potential.”
—Publishers Weekly

“The brilliantly comprehensive study of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm’s (1900–1980) many “lives” as a clinician, philosopher, social critic and political activist…Academic biography at its best.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Accessible to general readers – a sympathetic, stimulating biography of one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.”
—Library Journal (starred review)

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing love—which, he insisted, was nothing if it did not involve joyful contact with others and humanity at large. Admired all over the world, Fromm continues to inspire with his message of universal brotherhood and quest for lasting peace.

The first systematic study of Fromm’s influences and achievements, this biography revisits the thinker’s most important works, especially Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving, which conveyed important and complex ideas to millions of readers. The volume recounts Fromm’s political activism as a founder and major funder of Amnesty International, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and other peace groups. Consulting rare archival materials across the globe, Lawrence J. Friedman reveals Fromm’s support for anti-Stalinist democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe and his efforts to revitalize American democracy. For the first time, readers learn about Fromm’s direct contact with high officials in the American government on matters of war and peace while accessing a deeper understanding of his conceptual differences with Freud, his rapport with Neo-Freudians like Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan, and his association with innovative artists, public intellectuals, and world leaders. Friedman elucidates Fromm’s key intellectual contributions, especially his innovative concept of “social character,” in which social institutions and practices shape the inner psyche, and he clarifies Fromm’s conception of love as an acquired skill. Taking full stock of the thinker’s historical and global accomplishments, Friedman portrays a man of immense authenticity and spirituality who made life in the twentieth century more humane than it might have been.

Lawrence J. Friedman is a professor in Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative and a professor emeritus at Indiana University. The author of eight scholarly books and more than fifty articles, he has lectured in eleven countries and was named International Writer of the Year for 2003 by the International Biographical Center. His works include Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik Erikson; Menninger: The Family and the Clinic; Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism; and The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South.

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