Santa Clara University

Organization: Open A Door Foundation (USA-based)
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: 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: Women’s Earth Alliance (USA-based)
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: Open a Door Foundation (USA-based)
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: International Museum of Women (USA-based)
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-based)
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: 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: Room to Read (USA-based)
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: Women United (USA-based)
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: Global Family Village (USA-based)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Providing Family and Community for Orphaned, Abandoned or Disenfranchised Children.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (1)
Accomplishments:
- Establishing a Teacher Training Program in Nepal for Primary and Preprimary Education.
- Founding an organization to help orphaned children.

Organization: Global Women's Leadership Network (USA-based)
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: Global Women's Water Initiative (USA-based)
Role: Director
Vision: Clean water and sanitation for all people
Inspiring Challenge: Grassroots women will provide sustainable clean water and sanitation to over 100,000 people in East Africa. (by December 12, 2012)
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)
Accomplishments:
- Building a world peace movement mobilizing the Million Voice Choir in 100 cities in 60 countries and to sing a song I wrote called WE RISE in response to 9/11.
- Founding a multi-award winning water organization that is a acclaimed model in social entrepreneurship.

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: 4Girls GLocal Leadership (USA-based)
Role: Founder
Vision: Inspiring the global voice of girls and young women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: TerraFocus (USA-based)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Women everywhere have the opportunity to reach their full potential in a world where they are appreciated and valued.
Inspiring Challenge: Change US policies from a focus on national security to a focus on global human security
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)
Accomplishments:
- Co-chairing a joint initiative between the Global Fund for Women and Women Donors Network members - Beyond Militarism: Women Building a Just Peace.
- Participating in several forums working on peace and security, specifically from a women's perspective.

Organization: The Women's International Perspective (USA-based)
Role: Founder and Executive Editor
Vision: Promote voices of under-represented in media.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Sunflower lighting (USA-based)
Role: Founding partner and acting business relation liaison and project manager
Vision: Light is a Human Right! My vision is to provide off-grid renewal solutions across global communities, currently deprived of this basic right.
Inspiring Challenge: Phase 1, install SUNFLOWER LIGHTING solutions (SFL) throughout four states in Mexico, bringing light to over 1.2 m people. (by December 2012)
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)
Accomplishments: My proudest accomplishments will be the completion of the company's first production run and installation, thus the establishment of our first community center in Mexico (then Latin America and beyond) -- a safe place providing educational programs and more.

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: Kennesaw State University and Ariel Gallery (USA-based)
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-based)
Role: Director, Major Gifts
Vision: To Establish an Entrepreneurial Fundraising Initiative.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (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: Cityteam International and Maranatha Christian Center (USA-based)
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 Poverty and Hunger (1)
Accomplishment: Producing four successful community fundraisers to finance youth programs in San Jose, CA and in Tijuana, Mexico.

Organization: GWLN and Tico Coffee Roasters (USA-based)
Role: Community Development Manager and Coffee Store Owner
Vision: My vision is that all human beings are empowered, so they can find their voice, live with dignity, and be at choice to do what they dream to do.
Inspiring Challenge:
- To empower 500 kids of Silicon Valley, through a mentoring program, to design their life path. (by June 12, 2013)
- To distribute specialty Costa Rican coffee in 20 states of the United States. (by December 1, 2012)
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)
Accomplishments:
- I'm proud of having started my own company in the United States, by bringing in one of the most special products we have in my country, Costa Rica: coffee. The experience has been amazing, people here enjoy and feel the difference in the product.
- I have learned tremendously from business persons, and I have had great mentors who have helped me to succeed.

Organization: Dining for Women (USA-based)
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: Global Women's Leadership Network (USA-based)
Role: Development Manager
Vision: To remodel GWLN into a sustainable organization ensuring the continued support to Gender Equality.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Becoming a leader in my church community as a trained Stephen Leader, President of Women's Ministries for several years, liaison to CityTeam Ministries and lead for our Helping Hands program.
- Being nominated to be part of WLW program and having the opportunity to be part of this class to scale my impact on gender equality globally.

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)