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 MoreGeneration 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.
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.
Read MoreCEO 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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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 MoreSoiya Gecaga on Bringing a New Standard of Education to Africa
Soiya Gecaga joins me in this week’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward episode to discuss the We The Change Foundation, of which she is Founder and Executive Director.
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Apply now to attend TEDWomen 2021 in Palm Springs
TEDWomen2021 will return to Palm Springs, CA, from Dec. 1-3, 2021 for six sessions of TED's famous talks, plus performances, interviews and other surprises that will reframe the power of women to lead, individually and collectively, towards the better future that we will be more prepared to shape, together. Learn more here.
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 MoreFour 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.
Read MoreCatalina Escobar on Disrupting Cycles of Poverty
In this conversation, Catalina Escobar, founder and president of Foundación Juanfe, discusses how to lead women from the poverty cycle into economic prosperity.
Read MoreWomen Moving Millions' Co-Founder Jacki Zehner on Women and Finance
Investor, philanthropist and activist Jacki Zehner has a lot of wisdom to share about women and finance. In this interview, she reflects on her first job at Goldman Sachs, where she became the first female trader ever at the company and the youngest woman ever to be made partner, and how everyone can use money as a tool for social change.
Read MoreChina's Media Powerhouse Yang Lan on the Power of Asking 'Why Not'?
In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” episode, I’m joined by the global powerhouse media personality Yang Lan, a woman often called the “Oprah of China.” In this candid interview, she talks frankly about how she bounced back from early failures to success with Sun Media Group, one of China’s leading privately owned media companies.
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 More#RaiseTheVibration & RISE for Women and #MotherEarth on #EarthDay
#1BillionRising activists are calling for #RisingGardens, a global grassroots action for revival, restoration and transformation, making the connection between violence against women and destruction of the earth. #RisingGardens is a defiant creative call for revival, restoration, and transformation.
Read MoreEchoing Green’s Cheryl Dorsey on Finding Your Superpower
In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” segment, I had the honor of interviewing Cheryl L Dorsey, a trailblazer in the global social entrepreneurship movement. She talks about finding your unique place in the continuum of social movement leaders and how she defines her own dangerousness in the role of cultural translator.
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