Santa Clara University

Organization: Institute Feira Preta (Brazil)
Role: Coordinator
Vision: Self esteem and economic development of Afro-Brazilian population.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Inspire young blacks to be undertake their own business.
- Replicate the model of management of the black fair in other locations in the form of social franchise.

Organization: TechnoServe (Kenya)
Role: Senior Business Manager
Vision: Economically empower young women living in the slums of Nairobi with opportunities to generate sustainable incomes, so that they lead dignified lives out of poverty.
Inspiring Challenge: Over 10,000 young women will have opportunities to generate sustainable income for themselves, their families and communities. (by December 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Trained 3700 girls and young women in entrepreneurship and business skills through the Young Women in Enterprise program.
- Rallying corporations to support and invest in girls. For example, Coca Cola is supporting 100 girls through their 5 by 20 women Empowerment program. This is a pilot expected to be scaled up.

Organization: Shaping Youth (USA)
Role: Founder and Executive Director
Vision: Shape youth through the media, using positive media campaigns to promote healthier society
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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 Poverty and Hunger (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: Uganda Women's Network (Uganda)
Role: Project Co-Director and Former Member of Ugandan Parliament
Vision: Help women in leadership speak out about women's rights and abuses
Inspiring Challenge: Provide homes to divorced women and their children; Impact practices on land ownership
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: KARUNA Management Consultancy (Turkey)
Role: Owner and Management Consultant
Vision: Help Turkey grow through Turkish entrepereneurial women; Member of Kagider Women Center
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Open A Door Foundation (USA)
Role: Founder and President
Vision: Empower potential leaders from crisis countries by helping them win US scholarships.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Last year, our first year, we helped 4 women from Rwanda win US scholarships at top-ranked U.S colleges. We turned $20,000 in seed money into $1,000,000 in educational funds.

Organization: Global Women's Leadership Network (USA-based)
Role: Manager of Coaching, WLW Program
Vision: Conduct 14 Women Leaders for the World (WLW) programs in three years
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments: Contributed to the delivery of several WLW programs in the role of Operations Director, Associate Director and Coaching Program Manager.

Organization: Open a Door Foundation (USA)
Role: CFO/Treasurer
Vision: Create future female leaders from impoverished countries by identifying and guiding top high school graduates through the admissions and financial aid process in order to gain US degrees and return home as change-makers.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Joining Open A Door as a volunteer.

Organization: Collective Action Training (USA)
Role: Co-founder, Trainer and Consultant
Vision: Empower girls to be decision makers
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Life Bloom Services International (Kenya)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Dignity among women who have experienced abuse
Inspiring Challenge: Building a "One Stop Center" for women and girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Training a team of 15 women leaders on some basics of authentic leadership.
- Kicking off the construction of the "One Stop Center," with the women getting down to do the physical work (this has been mainly a male occupation in our community).

Organization: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Ghana)
Role: Gender Studies Lecturer and Journalist
Vision: Give women public voice and visibility
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: International Museum of Women (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Using art to accelerate global attention on women's maternal health rights
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Global Tech Women (USA)
Role: Founder
Vision: Recruit and retain more women in the field of technology and support them locally and globally.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Decrease isolation, provide role models, and create consistent support structures.
- Create a goal-oriented network that will provide each woman with a roadmap for advancement and career success.
- Highlight and celebrate that this success comes in many forms and should not be prescribed.

Organization: iCON Women and Young People's Leadership Academy (Uganda)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Unleashing women’s leadership through self-help in East Africa
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: Golcuk Municipality (Turkey)
Role: Art Gallery Director
Vision: Help citizens through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy (USA)
Role: Director
Vision: Equity and justice for all women and girls
Inspiring Challenge Establish a Women's Justice & Empowerment Center.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Reached my goal of raising half a million dollars for efforts toward women's justice and empowerment.
- Developed a partnership for a Women's Re-Entry Team to help incarcerated victims of violence with a new goal of raising 1 million dollars by December 2011.
- Organized a Women and Girls Summit for 173 adults and 130 girls.

Organization: Women United (USA)
Role: Founder and Visual Thinker
Vision: Connect and empower women around the world with matching interests.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Created a discussion forum on how to empower women around the world using technology.
- Used visual art to inspire women in expressing a free mind.

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 Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: SNV Netherlands Development Organization (Tanzania)
Role: Project Director, Renewable Energy and Biogas
Vision: Educate women about their rights; See more Tanzanians have better lives by adopting newer renewable energy technologies for their home
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Global Women's Leadership Network (USA)
Role: Partnership Manager
Vision: To provide the necessary infrastructure within Global Women's Leadership Network (GWLN).
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)
Accomplishments:
- Received recognition as President of "The Corporate Action" in San Francisco.
- Received "The Founders Day" award by the Portola Valley School District.

Organization: Pro Mujer (USA-based)
Role: Former Director of Communications
Vision: Use media to tell stories of female heroes
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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.