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Lucina Di Meco: Senior Director of Girls’ Education & Gender Equality at Room to Read
Lucina Di Meco is a gender expert and women’s rights advocate. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Girls’ Education & Gender Equality at Room to Read, an international nonprofit promoting gender equality through education. Lucina is also the author of #ShePersisted. Women, Politics & Power in The New Media World. Her work was featured on Time…
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Traei Tsai: Using The Power of Storytelling to Empower Women
Traei Tsai is a Taiwanese born Canadian writer, gender equality and women empowerment activist, actress, fashion model, and painter based in Vancouver. She is currently working on a book-project, “Her Stories Untold“, capturing true stories of women around the globe. As featured in a recent interview on Global News on Mother’s Day, she talks about how…
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Ananya kamboj : Using Sports to Empower Girls and Women
Ananya kamboj was just 12 when she was selected by mission XI million, an initiative by FIFA, All India Football Federation and Supported by Government of India as a young journalist at the Global Football for Friendship (F4F) social program at St. Petersburg, Russia in 2017. Since then, she has been selected to represent India as…
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Masooma Ranalvi: Fighting to End Female Genital Mutilation(FGM) in India
Masooma Ranalvi still recalls the day, at age 7, when she was taken to a dirty apartment in Bhindi Bazaar in Mumbai with the promise of ice cream. The horror of that day remained with her as a shameful secret until, in college, she was able to put a name to her experience: Female Genital Mutilation(FGM). Masooma…
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Maya Vishwakarma: unraveling menstruation stigma in rural India
Maya Vishwakarma, popularly known as the “Padwoman Of India” is on a mission to promote menstrual hygiene and to fight against menstrual stigma in rural India. Her organization ‘Sukarma Foundation’ campaigns at the community level in remote villages about menstrual hygiene and manufactures low-cost sanitary napkins for tribal women in Madhya Pradesh, India. Hailing from a…
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Phionah Musumba, Founder & Executive Director Malkia Foundation
Phionah Musumba is the Founder & Executive Director of Malkia Foundation, a non-governmental organization(NGO) in rural Kenya which helps and empowers underprivileged girls and women. Phionah’s remarkable journey of establishing the Malkia Foundation to help others while she herself was fighting with acute poverty is just phenomenal. We are deeply grateful and honored to be able…
