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.
Read MoreConserving 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.
Read MoreCo-Existing with Lions: Resson Kantai Duff
Co-existing is possible, and conservation can come from the community itself.
Read MoreKathy 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.
Read MoreThe Case For Her Co-Founder Cristina Ljungberg on Investing in Women's Health
Ljungberg is a co-founder of The Case For Her and an investor in women’s storytelling. Her organization works to raise awareness for women’s health issues that have been long underfunded and overlooked such as menstruation and sexual health and pleasure.
Read MoreAction 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.
Read More'Rewilding' in Africa with Roar Africa's Deborah Calmeyer
Today’s episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward features Deborah Calmeyer, founder and CEO of Roar Africa — a luxury African safari company for women and by women.
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New Paradigm: Shifting Power as We Rebuild America with a Gender Lens
This is a crucial moment and the Generation Equality Forum is a crucial gathering for women all over the world, as the pandemic has pushed back women's rights and girl's protections in too many places. In a new op-ed written by Ms. Foundation President and CEO Teresa C. Younger and Joy Anderson, President and Founder of Criterion Institute, they discuss the need to shift power as we rebuild.
Read MoreMayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Injustice in the Atlanta Community
This week on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I spoke with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, Georgia. We discussed standing up for our communities, staying calm in adversity, and what it means to be a dangerous woman.
Read MoreKimberlé 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.
Read MoreDisaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women
As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence against women, and a full-blown assault on their rights. It’s time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated.
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New TV Series! Dangerous Women: Leading Onward
I’m back on TV with a series, DANGEROUS WOMEN: LEADING ONWARD, as part of Fintech.TV’s commitment to IMPACT, elevating opportunity for the financial markets, private investors and philanthropists to get engaged in initiatives, organizations, and movements led by women for social change and impact.
Read MoreJacqueline Novogratz on Tackling World Poverty
In this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I speak with Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen. Together, we discuss her journey to social finance, investing in entrepreneurs, and standing with the poor.
Read MoreV (formerly Eve Ensler) on Transforming the World Locally
In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” episode, I talk with V (formerly Eve Ensler) about what’s next as we come out of the pandemic. She says that now is the time to address the inequities and power structures that are hurting us all starting at the local level.
Read MoreAuthor Mia Birdsong on Economic Equality
Join me as I speak with activist and author Mia Birdsong about how we must show up to stay connected during and after COVID.
Read MoreChristine Schuler Deschryver on Healing Women Survivors of Violence
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Christine Schuler Deschryver on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward. Christine is the Co-Founder and Director of City of Joy, a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence in the DRC.
Read MoreDr. Lucy King on Saving the Elephants with Bees
I’m joined in today’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward by Dr. Lucy King, leader of the Elephants and Bees Project. In this discussion, we dive further into the project and speak about the ways in which it relies on the women in each community to help the project succeed.
Read MoreThe InfluencHER Project: Q&A with Gloria Walton of The Solutions Project
In honor of Earth Day, I want to amplify this InfluencHER Project interview with Gloria Walton, a longtime community organizer and president and CEO of The Solutions Project, a national climate justice organization that supports climate changemakers, innovators, and 'solutionaries’ at the grassroots level. I met Gloria recently and she is one of the most inspiring young women climate activists/leaders I’ve met.
Read MoreWomen Leaders for Climate Justice: Shaping Solutions [VIDEO]
Climate change is a crisis that will impact all people, but its effects are being shaped by pervasive and entrenched inequalities. In this Skoll World Forum panel, I talked with activists, experts and Gina McCarthy, the first White House National Climate Advisor, about what we need to do to solve climate change in an equitable, just and sustainable way that provides good outcomes for all of us. As usual, women are leading the way.
Read MorePodcast: Breaking Glass - Media, Equity and Influence
I had the pleasure of speaking with Sabrina Merage Naim and Kassia Binkowski, the hosts of the new podcast Breaking Glass about women in media. I shared my thoughts on equity and how we might get there, and the responsibility that I believe women in positions of power have to drop the ladder behind them as they move up by mentoring and advocating for other women to advance.
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