Rachel Simmons
Rachel Simmons is an author, educator, and blogger. She has written two New York Times bestsellers: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. Rachel is also the founder of The Girls Leadership Institute and serves as a consultant [...]
Alyse Nelson
Alyse Nelson is the President, Cheif Executive Officer, and co founder of the international, non-governmental organization, Vital Voices. Through her job, she has worked with women leaders to develop training programs and international forums in over 120 countries and has interviewed more than 200 international leaders. Before Vital Voices, Alyse worked with Former Secretary of [...]
Afnan Al Zayani
Afnan Al Zayani is a remarkable woman from Bahrain who plays many roles in her community. Afnan is a television cooking show star, activist and CEO of a multi-million dollar company. A strongly driven woman in a male-dominated society, Afnan bought Al Zayani Commercial Services from her brothers in 1999. She has pursued her dream [...]
Panmela Castro
Panmela Castro is a twenty eight-year-old, Brazilian graffiti artist who has been raising awareness about domestic violence and the recently passed Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence against Women, named for a woman who was paralyzed for life as a result of brutal beatings from her husband. Panmela received the Vital Voices [...]
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn are the authors of Half the Sky, a book which educates readers about the problems facing women around the world everyday, and organizations looking to help. Kristof is a writer for the New York Times and WuDunn is a former New York Times Correspondant who works in finance. Learn more [...]
Marie Wilson
Marie Wilson is the president and founder of The White House Project, an organization dedicated to getting a woman in the Whitehouse. She was also the President of the Ms. Foundation. She was the co-creator of Take Our Daughters To Work Day, and served as the first woman to the Des Moines City Council in [...]
Ellen Malcolm
Ellen Malcolm is the founder of Emily’s List, an organization that is dedicated to electing more pro-choice, Democratic women into office. The organization endorses and fundraises for female candidates. They also raise awareness about voting, in an attempt to have more women turn out to vote. Learn more about Emily’s List
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
Elected in 1992, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is a Democrat who represents New York’s 14th district, which she is the first woman to serve. Her new book, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated discusses women in leadership positions and the future of women in politics. She has worked on numerous issues such as health [...]
Roshaneh Zafar
Roshaneh Zafar is a Pakistani woman who created the Kashf Foundation, the first specializedf microfinance institution to serve women in Pakistan. Roshaneh is a well known figure in the economic world, and has used her study of other microfinance organizations to further her idea that women can realize their inherent worth through, as she says, [...]
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth served in the Iraq war, where she was severely injured, losing both her legs and damaging her right arm. She moved to the United States from Thailand when she was 16. She has dedicated her life, since serving in the military, to insuring veterans the rights they deserve, and helped to create the [...]
