Santa Clara University

Organization: FESAC - Fundacion del Empresariado Sonorense, A.C. (Mexico)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Shared community service on both sides of the border: Grants to build capacity of community organizations
Inspiring Challenge: Strengthening the non-profit sector in collaboration with private and public funds to develop a strong network that includes academia, businesses, factories, government and international partnerships
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: TechnoServe (Mozambique)
Role: Product Development Manager
Vision: To see all Mozambicans holistically healthy and self-sufficient within their local beliefs and culture.
Inspiring Challenge: 150 Rural Fun (Food) Centres that improves people's minds, bodies and spirits -- Minds with intuitive education! Bodies with good nutrition! Spirits with self-esteem and enthusiasm! (by December 2013)
Millennium Development Goals: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- Developed a project in and about a problematic country for my Masters thesis.
- Managing a project that is aimed to improve peoples' lives without modifying their local beliefs. A moment of pride was to know that the project will be implemented.

Organization: Republic of Senegal (Senegal)
Role: Former Minister of Culture and Gender
Vision: Empower women and reduce poverty
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Brazil Innovators (USA-based)
Role: Founder
Vision: Fair Trade and Sustainable Development
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Beacon House/Families-in-Transition Support Network (USA)
Role: Fundraising Chair
Vision: Facilitating services to help low income families
Inspiring Challenge: Food for local homeless kids
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment: Owned and managed two retail stores that employed a team of young women who needed jobs

Organization: Tempest Productions (USA-based)
Role: Playwright and Artistic Director
Vision: Ending sex trafficking around the world
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Led a national campaign based on the play, "BODY & SOLD", to raise awareness about sex trafficking of American children and teens

Organization: The Hunger Project (Ethiopia)
Role: Chairperson, Ethiopia Advisory Council
Vision: Creating women change agents to influence policy, programs and budgets
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Global Family Village (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Providing Family and Community for Orphaned, Abandoned or Disenfranchised Children.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- Establishing a Teacher Training Program in Nepal for Primary and Preprimary Education.
- Founding an organization to help orphaned children.

Organization: Resala Charity Organization (Egypt)
Role: Financial Supporter& Volunteer Project Coordinator.
Vision: Supporting Women's Independence in poor Communities (Luxor) by qualifying them to be artisans and establishing new sales Channels.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- I challenged the biased treatment I faced in my last year of studies by doubling my efforts to achieve high standing. I was also promoted as Idealistic Student on departure.
- I got my own independence by living alone in Luxor. I also received high recognition from my colleagues and students as one of the best teaching skilled professors.

Organization: Asante Africa Foundation (Kenya)
Role: Co-Founder, School Principal, Maasai Tribe Member
Vision: Provide shelter, training and education to widows and girls to transform their future.
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, acquire 50 acres of land to provide shelter for 50 widows and complete four classrooms and a resource center to provide education and vocation training for girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Social Advancement Through Unity (Bangladesh)
Role: Founder
Vision: Dignity, social justice, and fraternity for women with development
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Pact Kenya (Kenya)
Role: Former Advisor of the WORTH Global Support Unit
Vision: Economically empower women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: The GoDown Arts Centre (Kenya)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: To inspire youth to use their talents in the arts in being effective agents of change in Kenya.
Inspiring Challenge:
- Through an artistically rich television program, use cultural operators as primary sources of influences for the youth in issues of National importance e.g., governance, crime.
- Create photo exhibitions of the post-election violence (Kenya 2007/8) as a reminder to people of their responsibility as citizens in the upcoming elections.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- We managed to run a successful campaign around the country "Never Forget, Never Again" on the post election violence in 2009/2010.
- The GoDown received support for a television programme to sensitize youth through artists and cultural operators, giving us a platform to influence the youth in Kenya.

Organization: Women's Initiative for Self Employment (USA)
Role: CEO
Vision: Transform Women Initiative into an international organization, moving from creating 5,000 jobs to 500,000.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Women's Initiative for Self-Employment builds the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome social and economic barriers and ultimately achieve self-sufficiency.
- Women's Initiative is in the process of expanding nationally. Julie Castro Abrams, as current CEO, has raised some of the necessary funds. She plans to use the funds to offer leadership courses in Chicago and New York.

Organization: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (USA)
Role: Director, Office for Women
Vision: An energized community of faculty, staff, and students pursuing opportunities for full participation, shared influence and equity among women and men in creating excellence in teaching and learning; research, scholarship and creative activity; and civic engagement on a local, national and global scale
Inspiring Challenge: Programming to celebrate our 15th year anniversary; A "Women Creating Excellence at IUPUI" exhibit; Mentoring programs for research faculty and students
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Participation and collaboration at a Gender and Leadership conference sponsored by the Institute for Gender Equity Research and Development at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya; Recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Committee

Organization: Free the Children (USA-based)
Role: Associate Director, Special Partnerships
Vision: Expand 'Free the Children' into the United States
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: American Bar Association (Armenia)
Role: Legal Education Reform Senior Staff Attorney
Vision: Delivering legal services directly to rural Armenians
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Kennesaw State University and Ariel Gallery (USA)
Role: Art Education Administrator, Professor and Gallery Owner
Vision:
- Make the invisible visible by creating websites for nonprofit organizations, helping them to step into 21st century technology.
- Create sustainable income for people creating indigenous crafts by helping them with design, teaching them to market and placement of their work.
Inspiring Challenge:
- Create websites for nonprofit organizations around the globe, working with my students who design the sites and gain intercultural skills.
- Place arts and crafts directly with buyers and with retail outlets.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- I have placed over $30,000 of crafts for artists in 6 different countries.
- My Kennesaw State University class, which focuses on designing websites for nonprofits around the globe, has created five working websites and eight more in production.

Organization: US Fund for UNICEF (USA)
Role: Director, Major Gifts
Vision: To Establish an Entrepreneurial Fundraising Initiative.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- Responsible for the most revenue raised that was used to save children's lives.
- I have traveled to over 20 countries in my life thus far and can converse in Spanish.

Organization: GLOBAL LID (Peru)
Role: Technical Manager; Architect
Vision: Providing management education for Peruvian women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (Costa Rica)
Role: Planning Department Director
Vision: To promote and respect human rights of migrants
Inspiring Challenge: Establish an academic chair on human rights
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- To introduce the project in operative plans in the national and regional level.
- The design of the Academic Chair program for the protection of migrant human rights.

Organization: Cityteam International and Maranatha Christian Center (USA)
Role: Teacher
Vision: Mobilizing leaders to build and maintain a thriving community kitchen as a launch site for economic and social gain.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishment: Producing four successful community fundraisers to finance youth programs in San Jose, CA and in Tijuana, Mexico.

Organization: Dining for Women (USA)
Role: Co-Founder and President
Vision: To eradicate world poverty by creating a new paradigm of giving
Inspiring Challenge: To raise two million dollars for an endowment fund by June 30, 2010. This will allow 100% of diner donations to continue going directly to programs.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)

Organization: Lending Promise (USA-based)
Role: Founder and Executive Director
Vision: Financial independence for women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Women Initiative for Sustainable Environment (Nigeria)
Role: Founder and Program Coordinator
Vision: Emancipating women for the development of society
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)