Vandana Hart – Dancer, Choreographer, Producer, Activist, UN Ambassador.

Vandana Hart is a dancer, choreographer, producer, activist, and UN Ambassador, and inspirational performing artist She is best known as the creator and host of the hit Netflix series We Speak Dance. She is also the former coordinator of the UN Women Safe Cities Global Programme. Vanda created and hosted We Speak Dance, which aired…

Guo Pei – Chinese Fashion Designer

Guo Pei is China’s most renowned couturier. For over 20 years, she has been dressing celebrities, distinguished ladies, royalty and political elite who turn to her for show-stopping, magnificent creations when they want to look beautiful and stand out from the crowd. A modern messenger of her cultural heritage, Guo Pei has breathed new life…

Martha Mertz – Founder/ATHENA International, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur

From childhood, Martha Mayhood Mertz saw women she admired – skilled, strong, inspiring women – denied recognition for and access to leadership positions. Carving out a career in the 1980s, Martha faced the same divide; accomplishments that were acclaimed in men were often overlooked in women. The more she observed, the more she became convinced:…

Mickalene Thomas – Artist, Curator, Educator, Mentor

Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. She is an internationally renowned artist recognized for works celebrating the power of female beauty toward claiming women’s agency. She confronts the objectification of women while simultaneously offering a vocabulary for redefining notions of femininity. Mickalene lives…

Olena Zelenska – First Lady of Ukraine, Architect, Screenwriter

Olena is the First Lady of Ukraine ,an Architect and Screenwriter. She is the founder of The Zelenska Foundation which together with their partners, both Ukrainian and foreign, has implemented a lot of socially important projects, including the purchase of medical equipment, delivery of humanitarian aid, evacuation of children abroad. However, new needs and requests…