Santa Clara University

Organization: Mountain Children's Foundation (India)
Role: President
Vision: To build global citizenship in children
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting mountain children all over the world.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- Since my participation in the Women Leaders for the World (WLW) 2009 program, the Mountain Children's Foundation has been participating in deliberations for and with children at a national level that impacts national policy.
- Our own team has increased in strength and we have signed meaningful partnerships.

Organization: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (USA)
Role: Program Coordinator
Vision: Expand 'Free the Children,' safeguarding children in the U.S.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Women’s Earth Alliance (USA)
Role: Research Fellow
Vision: My vision is for all young people, regardless of age, gender, socio-economic status, or place of origin to be able to access transformational opportunities that enable them to realize their power to transform the world.
Inspiring Challenge: Establish an organization that offers an international year of service to 40 recent US high-school graduates from traditionally undeserved populations. While abroad students receive language and leadership training, apprentice with social entrepreneurs, and implement a service project in their host community. (by January 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments: I was a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal working at the nexus of social entrepreneurship and energy development.

Organization: Room to Read (India)
Role: State Manager, Uttarakhand
Vision: Gender equality in education
Inspiring Challenge: Enabling girls to have quality education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Training more than 2000 rural women in farm and non farm based business activities

Organization: Shine On Publications (USA)
Role: Author
Vision: Bring light into children and teenager's lives by writing children books
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Room to Read (USA)
Role: Global Director, Girls Education
Vision: Girls will complete secondary school and have the skills to negotiate key life decisions
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments: We are supporting the holistic education of over 13,000 girls in 8 developing countries in Asia and Africa!

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (Kenya)
Role: Programme Officer
Vision: Linking sponsors with needy children to advance educational opportunities
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Sullivan, Ballog & Williams (USA)
Role: Associate Attorney
Vision: Connecting stories of militarization for community based cross-cultural education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Kasimu Education Fund (Malawi)
Role: Co-Founder
Vision: Break the cycles of poverty, disease and hunger by improving educational opportunities, making a direct impact on the prosperity of the impoverished Manyesa area
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Mother Mary's Children Center (Malawi)
Role: Director
Vision: Securing health and education for orphaned children
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Room to Read (South Africa)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: A world in which all children read
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, train 400 teachers in two African countries to teach children to read.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Room to Read (USA)
Role: HR Sr Manager
Vision: My vision is to enable each and every Room to Read staff member across the globe to tap into his/her full potential, thereby ensuring that the children we serve receive the highest quality education.
Inspiring Challenge: All 600+ Room to Read staff members will have created individualized professional development plans. (by March 31, 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishment: Being a teacher of beautiful 4th and 5th graders in a traditionally underserved community.

Organization: FUNDZA (Swaziland)
Role: Director
Vision: Empowering women with leadership skills and to encourage participation and desire to be in decision making positions in my society.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- I am proud of having produced excellent leaders while I was a librarian at the University of SD. I impacted many souls. I now marvel as I see some are CEO's of big Companies.
- FUNDZA is the only NGO that promotes lifelong reading in SD. On Feb 14 2012 the Ministry of Education Awarded FUNDZA a certificate in recognition of its valuable support to Education.

Organization: Forum for African Women Educationalists (Rwanda)
Role: President of the Girls' Education Alliance
Vision: Advocating children's right to education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Providing Possibilities Foundation (USA)
Current title/Area of focus: Founding President
Vision: Empowering Children to Change the World
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- Helping found and fund an orphanage for children in India.
- Starting my own 501(c)3 charity organization which encourages children to become active participants in improving their world. By involving children in causes that directly improve the lives of those less fortunate, children learn that they can make a difference even at a young age.

Organization: Aarti Home (India)
Role: Founder and President
Vision: Ensure that women survive and are empowered to exercise choices over their lives
Inspiring Challenge: Work to fulfill our vision through Aarti Home
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishments:
- All of the girls in Bayanapalli, a nearby village with a previously high dropout rate, are now going to school.
- Aarti Home has been able to expand its tailoring and vocational training programs to women in Kadapa and the surrounding areas.
- Winner of the 2012 Leader of Impact Award with more than 8,000 votes.

Organization: Unknown (USA)
Vision: Transform the school system so that it is more responsive
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: UNICEF (India)
Role: Former Anti-Domestic Child Labour Project Coordinator
Vision: Education of children and girls collectives
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Room to Read (India)
Role: Country Director
Vision: Create literacy through reading with children in developing societies
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Nagarik Aawaz (Nepal)
Role: Program Manager
Vision: To build the capacity of the conflict affected community, especially the victims (women and youths) of conflicts so that they can be empowered enough to lead the peace initiative actions by themselves in the long run.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Education (2);  Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Seeing, or hearing about, women and youths that I have worked with in the past demonstrating transformational behavior in their feeling and understanding (changing from anger and revenge to forgiveness).
- I feel very delighted when I see conflict affected women and youths working together in a team for social change.

Organization: Embassy of the Republic of Poland (Poland)
Role: Ambassador to Georgia
Vision: Create network to promote democratic change in Crimea, Ukraine with the Tartar People
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Human Rights Advocacy Center (Ghana)
Role: Project Officer and Coordinator
Vision: Educating children to advocate for their rights
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)