Emotional Courage For the Win

I believe that the examples of Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka are something that we should honor and practice in our own lives. We need to listen to ourselves, own our feelings and be kind — not only to ourselves, but to others who are going through struggles we may not understand.

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Gender Equity with Dr. Agnes Binagwaho

My guest today on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward is Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, a woman leader in Rwanda whom I’ve had the privilege of knowing for several years. As the former Minister of Health in Rwanda during the AIDS and Ebola epidemic, and now as Vice Chancellor and Co-Founder of the University of Global Health Equity, Dr. Binagwaho’s story is one of courageous leadership.

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Conserving Africa with NatGeo Explorer Beverly Joubert

I had the honor of speaking with renowned photographer and filmmaker Beverly Joubert on this week’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward episode. During our discussion, Beverly spoke of the dangers of her work and of the life changing lessons she learned from a near-death experience.

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Kathy Eldon on Creative Activism and Igniting Social Change with Media

Kathy’s organization, the Creative Visions Foundation, emboldens creative activists. Their mission is to spark awareness of critical issues and ignite change through impact media, art and technology: creative activism. I had the pleasure of speaking with Kathy in the most recent episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, and discovered just how dangerous she can be when chasing a story.

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Action Coalition Leader Joanita Babirye on Feminist Action for Climate Justice at the Generation Equality Forum

Today's blog post is an excerpt from The InfluencHER Project’s newsletter, featuring the words of guest editor, Joanita Babirye, the co-founder of the Girls for Climate Action, an organization that has stepped up as a Leader of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice. She writes why she felt called to be a Leader at GEF.

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Generation Equality Forum: Accelerating Gender Equality Around the World

25 years after Beijing, no country is even close to fully delivering on true gender equality. As we begin to recover from the pandemic, we must put gender equality at the heart of that process. Later this month in Paris, the United Nations will convene the Generation Equality Forum. This week I talk with UN Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia about the Generation Equality Forum.

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Kimberlé Crenshaw Explains Intersectionality

In this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I have the privilege of speaking with the Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, Kimberlé Crenshaw. She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and we talk about some of the myths surrounding intersectionality today.

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CEO Musimbi Kanyoro on Women's Leadership in Africa

This week on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I had the pleasure of speaking with Musimbi Kanyoro. She told me about what she has learned from women leaders in the over 130 countries she has visited as the CEO of Global Fund for Women. "Every kind of liberation or freedom that happens to one woman, will impact other women,” she tells me. Watch now.

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Four Women Activists Uplifting Communities in Africa

Watch profiles of four extraordinary women that are making a difference on the African continent – Christine Schuler Deschryver, co-founder of City of Joy in the DRC; Soiya Gecaga, founder of We The Change Foundation in Kenya; Dr. Lucy King, leader at Elephants and Bees Project in Kenya; and Juliet Asante, CEO of the National Film Authority in Ghana.

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