• 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…

  • My 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…

  • NC 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…

  • Advertising Excludes Women With Faces Like Mine

    Read this two part series by Charlene Pell linked here.        

  • Face 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…

  • An 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…

  • Redefining 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…

  • Programs For Schools

    Presentations geared to school classes and special programs are offered throughout the area

  • An 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.…

  • Thought-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…