Sister Zeph is an activist from Gujranwala, she primarily advocates for girls education and women empowerment. She is the Founder of Zephaniah Free Education, Zephaniah Women’s Education and Empowerment Foundation. Her journey began in 1997 when she was 13 years old and her teacher beat her in front of class. That is when she promised…
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…
Olajumoke Adenowo is a Nigerian architect, speaker, radio host, philanthropist, and author. She founded the Awesome Treasures Foundation in 1999, with the goal to “raise transformational leaders”. The foundation provides vocational, leadership, and business training to girls and women throughout Nigeria. Olajumoke also mentors women on her weekly radio show. As a philanthropist, Olajumoke runs…
Deborah Szekely is a prominent visionary, activist and philanthropist. She was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, and spent her childhood in Tahiti, where her family became acquainted with philosopher and natural-living advocate Edmond Bordeaux Szekely. Deborah married Edmond in 1939 and, in 1940, the couple opened a camp in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico,…
J.K. Rowling is best-known as the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007. The popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have gone on to sell over 500 million copies worldwide, be translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She is the second…
Dr. Paula Fellingham is the Founder and CEO of the Women’s Information Network (WIN), an educational and social network for women, and a global community of women. The WIN hosted the largest gathering of women in history for the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011: 377 live events in 152 countries.…
Dolly Parton, the queen of country music is also a philanthropist. In 2016, her Dollywood Foundation donated $1,000 per month to families impacted by wildfires in Tennessee, and those payments continued for six months. In 1995, she founded Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a literacy program that’s donated more than 100 million children’s books. And earlier…
Grandmaster Kim (Dr. Tae Yun Kim) is the first female grandmaster in the history of Korean martial arts and among her many accomplishments has founded a multimillion-dollar high-tech company. Her new book, Seven Steps to Inner Power: How to Break Through to Awesome, is now in bookstores.
Sara Menke is founder and CEO of Premier Inc. In 2012, Sara Menke was recognized as a finalist for the prestigious and internationally renowned Stevie Award for Women Entrepreneur of the Year.
Amy Rao is the Founder & CEO of Integrated Archive Systems. She has a long history of involvement in both local and national democratic politics and she actively advocates for stronger human rights and environmental policy.
