From the frontlines of the Covid pandemic this week, I want us to think about some startling new facts about who is hurting the most and what we can do about it. After decades of progress for working women, this recession has the potential to roll it all back in one fell swoop.
Read MoreLet's #WomanUP for Kamala Harris
Senator Kamala Harris has secured her place in history already as the first woman of color to be on a major party’s national ticket and last week, in the first and only vice-presidential debate, she became only the third woman ever to engage in a nationally televised debate.
Read MoreShow Up, Woman Up and Vote!
I launched ShopBADW.com, my “purchase with purpose” shopping website, last October with the publication of my book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World. The shop offers eco-friendly, sustainable products that are designed and made by women. 100% of the profits are going to organizations that support and lift up women. Learn more.
Read MoreDangerous Women Vote!
After Tuesday night, the imperative to vote has never been more urgent. A new doc featuring Stacey Abrams explains how voting rights are under threat. Get vote ready with a list of ways you can work as a citizen to secure this election.
Read MoreWoman Up, But Not 'On the Basis of Sex' Alone
As a tribute to the precedent setting, culture shifting cases that Justice Ginsburg defended as a lawyer and protected as a Supreme Court Justice, I am expanding my Woman Up campaign to focus on men running for the U.S. Senate. After all, we can’t make voter choices on the basis of sex singularly or we miss the opportunity to ‘Woman Up’ for some very good men — and in order to take back the Senate, these races are key.
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Working Together to Woman Up
There are still many barriers for women seeking political leadership, and gratefully, many more organizations being formed and initiatives put into action to make it more likely that women who take the risks to run — to woman up — will also win. Here is some information on some of these groups and the important work they do!
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It's time to WOMAN UP in the House (Again)
This week, I'm highlighting five women of color running for the House. Let's give them a lift in the coming days and weeks. (I'll be featuring more women running for the House in an upcoming post.)
Read MoreIt's time to WOMAN UP in the Senate.
The key to shifting the power in the Senate this election will be women! Women voters. Women candidates. This is why I’m devoting all my social media platforms for the next 10 weeks to profiling the women whose wins will change the power balance between political parties and between women and men in the US Congress.
Read MoreThe DNC and Georgia ‘Women Up’
Georgia is a state with a proud history of what John Lewis liked to call "good trouble” and today, many of Georgia's women leaders are continuing to stir up good trouble for democracy, racial justice and equality. More women from Georgia spoke during the DNC than any other state. I am feeling a sense of pride in my sister Georgians and a powerful dose of hope, too, that these voices represent our future. Let’s hear from them!
Read MoreThe Fight to Vote. The Untold History.
Even the most informed among us, are catching up to a lot we didn’t know, learn or celebrate until now. This is why, as we celebrate 100 years of white women voting this month, it's important to unlearn what we were taught in school and seek out the truth about what really did happen.
Read MoreLive Chat: Become a Dangerous Woman with Pat Mitchell
I joined the women of The Riveter for a live conversation about becoming a dangerous woman. Watch us as we redefine what age, leadership, and risk taking can look like.
Read MoreVideo: Food Insecurity — A Global Ecosystem in Crisis During Covid
Connected Women Leaders (CWL) is a community of transformative change leaders committed to sharing, learning and collective problem solving. We gathered together recently to discuss the urgent threat of food insecurity in a food ecosystem that was already under threat and increasing stress because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThe InfluencHER Project Amplifies Women's Voices: Join Us!
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. Join us!
Read MoreA Conversation About Moral Revolution with Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline is the author of a new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, that you all should be reading right now. It’s the perfect book for these times. We talked about reimagining leadership and cultivating a new definition of success, one not based on money, power and fame. Watch the video and read highlights.
Read MoreWOW Global 24 Video: 3 Panels on Climate Justice in the Age of Covid-19
What is climate justice and how can we achieve it? In this illuminating session from today’s WOW Global 24 Festival, our panel of experts, activists and world leaders discuss how we can bring together the knowledge of the world’s Indigenous women and climate scientists to build understanding of the planet and resilience of communities of all kinds to cope with climate change and care for the planet.
Read More12 TEDWomen Talks to Watch and Share at This Moment
I share this post as a white woman of privilege. Ten years ago, I used that privilege to partner with the TED organization to create and curate a TED conference of TEDTalks by women — TEDWomen. In this time of deep listening and important learning, I wanted to share with you just a few of those talks from TEDWomen conferences that have informed my thinking and that live in my heart.
Read MoreDon't Mess With Nancy Pelosi
So thrilled to have my review of TIME magazine reporter Molly Ball's new biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the spring issue of Ms. Magazine.
Read MoreCelebrate and Support the Solar Mamas This Mother's Day
In this post, with Mother’s Day just a week away, I’m celebrating the role that Solar Mamas, trained by Barefoot College, have in their communities — more important than ever right now. In the next 2 weeks, we will donate all sales in the BADW Shop to the Barefoot College.
Read MoreWatch EarthxWomen Climate Justice Panel
How are women and girls leading towards the global RESET of policies, politics, global agreements and human behavior that can emerge from this time of contagion and confusion? Watch women leaders from around the globe, girls and women leading from the frontlines of the climate crisis, talking about climate change and climate justice in the time of COVID-19.
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Rise Up for the Great Reset
Can there be any doubt that a reset of very nearly everything will emerge from this time of contagion and confusion? Reflecting on the balance between risks and opportunity as we go about our personal and collective resets, I believe more strongly than ever that we need women leaders to be leading this work.
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