Santa Clara University

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Forrester Research (USA)
Role: Account Director
Vision: Provide fundraising and local mentoring opportunities to Turkish professional woman in the Bay Area
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: 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: 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)

Organization: Uganda Catholic Secretariat (Uganda)
Role: HIV/AIDS Program Officer
Vision: An empowered community able to cope with HIV/AIDS
Inspiring Challenge: Support to orphans, vulnerable children and widows
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- We are very proud that by collaborating with another WLW alumni, a website was constructed for the Good Samaritan Women's Project (an organization founded by Rosemary Nakijoba)
- We are so thrilled to the WLW program for being a social network that benefits our local community

Organization: The Paradigm Shifts Coaching Group (USA)
Role: CEO, Coach and Author
Vision: Empowering individuals and organizations to implement actions that create great results
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: Rural Women's Movement (South Africa)
Role: Founder and Director
Vision: Research grassroots women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (Ethiopia)
Role: Development Consultant, Researcher, Former Gender Officer (UNDP)
Vision: Create hostels and provide counseling for girls
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

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: Center for the Development of Civil Society (Armenia)
Role: Founding President
Vision: Provide political academies for women, Young Women Leadership Institute
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)