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Highlights from IWF’s World Leadership Conference
From co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Priscilla Chan to author and visionary Margaret Atwood, our conference featured a fantastic line up of speakers who addressed the many global forces for change that were accelerated or magnified by the...
IWF Game Changers: Fighting for the Future of Girls
Michell Nunn, President and CEO of CARE USA and a member of IWF Georgia, joins us on the International Day of the Girl Child to focus on the urgent and unique challenges that girls everywhere face related to living healthy and fulfilling lives. In this episode, she...
In the Lead: 3 Actions to Expand Women’s Financial Inclusion in the Midst of COVID-19
IWF member Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President & CEO of Women’s World Banking, shares three key points for expanding women’s financial inclusion in response to the impact of the ongoing pandemic. 1. Digitize government benefits payments Distributing...
IWF Game Changers: Exploring the World through Sailing & Science
Alexia Barrier was the first woman to attempt a single-handed around-the-globe tour for the benefit of science. In this episode she shares: her experience spending 111 days alone at sea how you don’t need the best equipment to perform at the highest caliber how we can...
IWF Game Changers: New World, New Rules – The State of Democracy
Ambassador Roberta Lajous shares her unique perspective on democracy, including: what she perceives as the greatest threat to democracy today what European governments offer their citizens that is particularly useful for women how the world views democracy in the U.S....