This week on Dangerous Women, Leading Onward, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mona Sinha, board chair for Women Moving Millions. Together, we discussed the $100 million commitment WMM made at the Generation Equality forum.
Read MoreCare is Critical to America's Economic Infrastructure
As the Senate debates President Biden's nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan, I want to write this week about the American Families Plan that the Biden administration hopes to pass next through the reconciliation process — without bipartisan support.
Read MoreNdidi Nwuneli on Disrupting Food Systems
I spoke with Ndidi on this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward and listened as she shared her lens from agriculture all the way to distribution.
Read MoreEmotional 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.
Read MoreGender 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.
Read MoreFive Books I Can't Wait to Read This Summer
We must all make a conscious effort to read more books by women. So here's my list, made up of the books currently stacked on my nightstand for reading this summer—books by four women and one man. I hope you will share books by women you recommend for summer reading in the comments!
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 MoreBillions Pledged to Accelerate Gender Equity at Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum, held in Paris from June 30 - July 2, 2021 and livestreamed to participants around the world, was a monumental event that set a new and unprecedented level of funding to prioritize and implement gender equality programs and commitments.
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 MoreDon't Miss Out! The Generation Equality Forum in Paris Is This Week — Register and Join an Action Coalition
The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) is a landmark event to catalyze rapid advancement on gender equality and will be the first time since the last global UNWomen’s conference in Beijing, 26 years ago, that a global community of government leaders and civil society will convene to consider the need for greater gender equality in order to have a more just and sustainable world. We can’t wait, and each of us can do something to advance this timeline. Each of us can #ActforEqual.
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 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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