Posts by Charlene Pell
Face Equality Week 2025
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL FACE EQUALITY WEEK Community Event: May 16, 4-8 PM JOIN US FOR A CELEBRATION OF FACE EQUALITY! Facing Forward, Inc., alongside local partners Greensboro Sports Performance, Brewed & Bottled, ESTAS Beauty, and Kathy Haines of Carolina Home Partners invite you to celebrate diversity and inclusion during International Face Equality Week. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS…
Read MoreMy Face 2025 Art Competition
My Face is a Masterpiece Collage Art Competition, celebrating Face Equality Week May 12 – 19, 2025 Submissions open Feb. 17 through April 11, 2025 Separate Judging for Student and Public Art CRITERIA: Topic: My Face is a Masterpiece for Face Equality Week (May 12-19) Medium: Collage Size 8 x 10″ or larger Written Information:…
Read MoreNC Governor Proclaims International Face Equality Week
Join us in honoring the significance of May 13-19 as International Face Equality Week, as declared by North Carolina’s Governor, Roy Cooper. Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan presents a proclamation to Charlene Pell declaring May 13-19 International Face Equality Week to raise awareness about the social and economic inequities often experienced by individuals with facial disfigurement/differences, and…
Read MoreAdvertising Excludes Women With Faces Like Mine
Read this two part series by Charlene Pell linked here.
Read MoreFace Equality Day
We salute and thank James Partridge and Changing Faces for 25 years of exemplary service to thousands of individuals living with disfiguring conditions and for their leadership driving the efforts to increase public awareness and appreciation of the formidable challenges of living with a visible difference. James has championed these causes and is respected and…
Read MoreAn Insider’s Point of View
We live in a society obsessed with outward beauty. We are bombarded with media images of airbrushed celebrities who give us unrealistic expectations of the “perfect image”. If you have a facial or physical difference that causes you to look out of the ordinary, odds are that you have been the target of social challenges,…
Read MoreRedefining and Valuing Beauty
Article source, Lake Norman Women, Sept. 2014 The mind, body, and spirit are intimately connected. People often tell me I’m Beautiful, yet my scarred appearance doesn’t meet any of the universal patterns of beauty. How is it that others find me “beautiful”? Society seems to relegate those of us with facial differences to the outskirts.…
Read MoreAn Inside Look at Being Outside of Ordinary
“Of all the things that you wear, your expression is the most important.” –Janet Lane If you have a facial or physical difference that causes you to look out of the ordinary, odds are that you have been the target of a stare. Your “response,” not “reaction” to a stare often determines the outcome of…
Read MoreThought-provoking documentary highlights prejudice in film-making
Take a look at this “Oscar” worthy one minute, thought-provoking documentary titled “Leo.” It causes each of us to think about the way we form opinions of others based solely on their physical appearance. “Downton Abbey” star, Michelle Dockery stars in this powerful film funded and developed for Changing Faces’ Campaign for Facial Equality. Please…
Read MoreMagazine Features Charlene Pell’s Moving Story
Finding Your Inner Tigress, Stories of Courageous LKN Women Facing Forward founder Charlene Pell is featured in this article published in Lake Norman Woman Magazine. The story gives a good insight into Charlene’s journey moving forward over the past 19 years. The article is available online at the magazine’s website and also as a pdf…
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