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Over 20 years ago, Dr. Lois Frankel founded MOSTE, a mentoring organization dedicated to providing inner city girls with positive role models. The results have been overwhelming: Since its inception MOSTE has touched the lives of over 1,000 girls. And in June 2007, one of the mentored girls graduated cum laude from Yale.

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As the twelfth of 13 children born to illiterate migrant workers, Valerie Hill-Jackson knows the importance of education. In 2006 she founded BOF, a foundation that emphasizes human potential and provides college prep workshops, leadership programs, mentoring and scholarship opportunities so every student can enter the workforce as empowered leaders.

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Janine LeeSAN FRANCISCO, CA

A passion for volunteering and helping the community inspired Janine Lee to found Capture the Dream in 2006. The non-profit organization for children of low-income homes holds school supply drives, provides mentorship programs and organizes family outings. “It’s rewarding to see someone experience something that others take for granted,” says Janine.

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Abigail Rosin believes that dance not only provides joy, it also builds confidence. So when she graduated from college, she moved to New York with a dream: To open a free dance studio and after-school program where inner city girls can find a safe haven. At Groove With Me, students learn to achieve goals, overcome fears and ultimately see their full potential.

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Family DetainedAfter DaughterSpeaks Out

WASHING-TON — Days af-ter a 24-year-oldcollege graduatespoke out on herimmigrationplight in USAToday, U.S.agents arrestedher family — including her father, a Viet-namese manwho once wasconfined to a “re-education” camp in his home coun-try for anti-communist activities.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., whochairs the House immigration sub-committee, accused federal officialsof “witness intimidation” for staginga pre-dawn raid on the home of TuanNgoc Tran.

The agents arrested Tran, his wifeand son, charging them with beingfugitives from justice, even though thefamily’s attorneys said the Trans havebeen reporting to immigration offi-cials annually to obtain work permits.

Lofgren said she believes the family was targeted because Tran’seldest child, Tam Tran, testified beforeLofgren’s panel earlier this spring insupport of legislation that would helpthe children of illegal immigrants.

— USA Today

Chinese GroupSays CandidateWas Insulting

MONTVILLE, Conn. — Mayoralcandidate James Andriote Sr. offendedsome Chinese residents in a recentdebate, when he singled out theAsian community while discussinghousing issues.

Andriote said that with the expansion of Mohegan Sun, therewould be more hotbeds (more than10 people living in a house, some-times in violation of health and firecodes) in town. He referred to “theAsians” and said the area wherethey live and walk to work at thecasino, on Route 32, is “a bad situation” and “very dangerous.”

During the debate, Andriote alsobrought up the Chinese populationwhen talking about a pending affordable-housing complex. “I’m notin favor of it,” he said. “It will proba-bly be bought out by the Asians.”

Andriote recommended anotherlocation for an affordable-housingcomplex, because “it’s too far for theAsians to walk to.”

— The Day

Ting Chosen toAssist GiulianiCampaign

WILMINGTON, Del. — TheDelaware Republican who tried unsuccessfully last year to unseatU.S. Senator Tom Carper is now assisting presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

Jan Ting made opposition to illegalimmigration a key issue of his Senate bid, and has been chosen toserve on an immigration advisoryboard for the Giuliani campaign.

Ting is a Temple University professor and was assistant commissioner at the former Immi-gration and Naturalization Serviceunder President George H.W. Bush.

State Republican Chairman Terry Strine says adding Ting as an advisor shows Giuliani is seriousabout protecting the border.

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Maybelline New York believes education gives young people endless possibilities and the confidence to realize their dreams. Maybelline New York’s educational initiatives support and encourage women of all ages to motivate and inspire others. Maybelline New York believes Janine Lee, CEO, Capture The Dream, Inc. is born with it and she will be featured in the November 5th issue of People Magazine, “Heroes Among Us.” Maybelline New York partnered with People Magazine to award a $10,000 donation to Capture The Dream, Inc. because Janine Lee best embodies the theme of empowerment through education.

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CAPTURE THE DREAM CEOJanine Lee, Erin Wasson

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BY LISA LEE

Janine Lee is your typicalgirl in the San FranciscoBay Area: a 23-year-oldrecent college grad, bud-ding socialite in the

nightlife scene, and sometime ac-tress, martial artist and communityactivist.

She also happens to be CEO ofCapture the Dream, a nonprofitaimed to help underserved andat-risk Bay Area residents suc-

ceed at school and find fulfilling,sustaining careers. The group de-livers financial aid to low-incomefamilies, single-parent homes, fos-ter children and children recover-ing from traumas. It also supportsyouth development and leadership

advancement through mentoring,education, arts and cultural pro-grams. This year, the organizationtook home the Maybelline NewYork Empowerment Through Ed-ucation Award and a $10,000 do-nation from Maybelline New Yorkand People magazine.

But a year and a half ago, theU.C. Davis alumna was almost toodiscouraged to live out her dreamafter she failed to win the 2005Miss Asian America title.

Janine's mentor Rauhmel Fox,CEO of WHOmentors.com, Inc., counseled her to keep things in perspective. “I told her, 'Here's the problem: if you win, you reignfor one year. But what happens after a year?’” Fox said. "I said to her, ‘How about doing this fora lifetime instead?’”

Janine took her mentor’s adviceto heart, and in July 2006, Cap-ture the Dream was born from

her pageant platform. Today, thegroup’s work includes the Dream-pack program, which provides abackpack brimming with schoolsupplies for underprivileged stu-dents, and a scholarship fund forbudding minority leaders inmemoriam to her grandfather,George Geng On Lee.

“I was always interested in vol-unteering,” she remembers, “but itwasn’t rewarding to feel like justone of a hundred faces, feeling for-gettable.” She recalled an incidentin high school when people failedto recognize her during a signa-ture drive, despite having volun-teered at various libraries, schoolsand hospitals since the age of 13.

Today, Janine realizes that mi-nor setbacks are never personal,and she aims to make herselfunique by setting an example. Afterthe library at Oakland’s PeraltaElementary School suffered mas-sive smoke damage due to a fire inMarch, Capture the Dream orga-nized a book drive that receivedgreat applause from the OaklandTribune. She even corralled herfamily to lend a hand: her fathershuttled books between localbookstores and the school.

“I’m very proud of Janine. Sherepresents contestants who areambitious, original and have the

courage to help the community,”marveled Rose Chung, Miss China-town 1981 and president of theMiss Asian America Pageant. “Ialways noticed that she was a doer.”

Though Janine admits that shehas recurring dreams of enteringthe beauty pageant for a secondtime, she said she is satisfied withbeing a nationally recognized CEOand a member of the 0.16 percentof Asian American women execu-tives in American business today.

And her optimism is contagious.“Always chase your dreams; afterall, they are not going to chase you”is part of her life philosophy andthe inspiration for her companylogo: the Native American Ojibwaydream catcher, which is tradition-ally hung from the bed of a child tocatch bad dreams and filter badspirits.

Capture the Dream is also ap-preciated by seasoned social work-

ers such as Vandnez Lam of SanFrancisco’s Legal Services forChildren. “[We] are working atthe front lines,” she explained.“The pay sucks and it’s emotional-ly draining, but every hour peoplecan donate makes a difference, es-pecially in San Francisco wherethe living standard is so high.”

Janine played hostess and mas-ter of ceremonies on Nov. 6 at TheAtrium in San Francisco and alsoenjoyed a lavish and celebrity-stud-ded award ceremony in New YorkCity on Nov. 1, attended by May-belline New York spokeswomenDanna Garcia, Tomiko Fraser,Erin Wasson and Hollywood fash-ion guru Phillip Bloch.

In her spare time — when shecan find it — Janine just looks for-ward to Tuesday night dinnerswith her grandmother and a casualjog. She’s just a normal gal, withbig dreams.

To volunteer in the San FranciscoBay Area: capturethedream.org,To start your own charity today,Visit WHOmentors.com

Find out what Janine Lee will do with the $10,000 and see her NYC makeover at maybelline.com/education

Lost the Crown But Gained Her Dreambay & California

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Left: Janine Lee with Betty Hsu (left), Ms. Chinatown USA 2007, andNicole Fox, Ms. San Jose 2007. Right: Lee receives Certificate ofHonor from Dorin Devi.

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