Elevating women’s voices and stories is a personal mission that was at the core of much of my media work as a television reporter, program host and documentary producer. With gratitude, I can continue to do this through this newsletter, and today, I’m excited to share information about another platform whose mission is exactly this: elevating the voices, ideas and opinions of women — The InfluencHER Project.
The InfluencHER Project is an editorial program and global community to empower and amplify female voices at a time when it’s even more challenging to break through the clutter and confusion of the media landscape. This new initiative was created by Christine Heenan and the Clarendon Group, and along with Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey, an award-winning Ghanaian poet, author, critic and activist, and veteran journalist Alison Smale, former executive editor of the International Herald Tribune and a former Undersecretary General for global communications at the UN, I’m serving as an editorial advisor to co-curate a weekly newsletter featuring some of the most interesting and thought-provoking female voices from around the world.
In our first month, over 200 people have joined our community, with a collective following on Twitter alone accounting for more than 2.1 million people worldwide. We count community members from five continents and dozens of countries, among them activists, scientists, economists, gender advocates, leading journalists, and global leaders, as part of our growing ranks.
I hope you'll subscribe! You can do that here: https://influencherproject.org/join
As a participant in The InfluencHER Project, our ask to you is this:
Subscribe to the newsletter.
Follow us on social media on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Share at least five pieces with your networks via your social media platforms during our initial pilot phase through October. Tag us @InfluencHERproj.
Ask leading women in your network to join this community.
Your amplification will help the voices of both established and emerging women leaders go further and faster and will increase their share of influence in important conversations, especially at this critical moment in our world.
As an InfluencHER, you will receive a weekly email with roughly five pieces of recent content — op-eds, videos, podcasts, essays and beyond – curated by myself, Apiorkor and Alison. Shared pieces will cover a variety of topics and will include content from around the world. All content will be written or created by women contributors.
Thank you for your support, and together,
let’s lift up women’s voices!
Read this week's newsletter featuring climate scientist Dr. Katharine Wilkinson.
You can view more recent content at The InfluencHER Project website here: https://influencherproject.org/explore-content
You can submit content for consideration here: https://influencherproject.org/submit
