First Lady Michelle Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama. She is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she became a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international…
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women’s rights activist. She is the author of The Wind in My Hair, the extraordinary memoir of a woman who overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she believes in, and to encourage others to do the same. This is her story of leaving her country, living…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNZpzp65XU Linda Cruse is the Founder of Race4Good. She is an international leadership expert, humanitarian, international speaker, and author. Based on her extensive frontline experience, Linda runs the Race4Good high impact program series Courageous Leadership. These individually tailored programs develop top talent and emerging leaders, while meeting the requirements of major businesses, organizations, companies, universities…
Jessica Nabongo is the first Black woman to travel to every country in the world. A Detroit-born Ugandan-American, is a wanderlust, cultural ambassador, travel writer and expert, photographer and entrepreneur, whose work is dedicated to changing the travel narrative and making the travel space more inclusive. At her core, she is a dreamer looking to…
Laura Boushnak is a Palestinian documentary photographer and visual storyteller. Her work mainly focuses on the Arab world, looking at issues that she finds stem from her own personal experience of gender, education, and aftermath of war. Laura infuses her interest in social issues with her passion for the visual arts and began her career…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lipp_IAgxxM Emily Nielsen Jones is a donor-activist engaged in promoting human equality, justice, and peace around the world. She is particularly passionate and engaged in the nexus of faith, gender, and development and working to mobilize our faith traditions to more fully and unambiguously embrace gender equality. As the founding member and trustee of the…
Daniela Soto-Innes has always been surrounded by strong women who love cooking. After moving to the United States from Mexico at the age of 12, she seriously contemplated a career in food, and at 14, took an internship that turned into her first job. For formal training, Soto-Innes attended Le Cordon Bleu in Austin. She…
Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At twenty-six years old, not yet a fully-trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female…
PT Hirshfield is a qualified Master Diver, with specialist training in Underwater Photography, Wreck Diving, Nitrox and Rescue. PT also has a certification in Underwater Navigation. She has over 1400 dives to her credit and numerous photography awards, including: Winner of the AIDE underwater photo competition in 2018 and Winner of Compact Macro division of…
Elaine Thompson-Herah is a Jamaican sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. One of the greatest sprinters of all time, she is a five-time Olympic champion, the fastest woman alive, and the second-fastest in history over both the 100 m and 200 m. Elaine is the first woman in history…
