Santa Clara University

Organization: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (USA)
Role: Program Coordinator
Vision: Expand 'Free the Children,' safeguarding children in the U.S.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Shaping Youth (USA)
Role: Founder and Executive Director
Vision: Shape youth through the media, using positive media campaigns to promote healthier society
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Oracle (USA)
Role: Senior Director
Vision: Foster global citizenship and community by partnering women in corporate and university organizations with GWLN inspired projects.
Inspiring Challenge: Connect women in 50 corporate and university settings with 50 GWLN inspired projects, with a report on (or conference to review) outcomes. (by 2014)
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Beacon House/Families-in-Transition Support Network (USA)
Role: Fundraising Chair
Vision: Facilitating services to help low income families
Inspiring Challenge: Food for local homeless kids
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment: Owned and managed two retail stores that employed a team of young women who needed jobs

Organization: Revive with Bhavana (USA)
Role: Coach
Vision: Women's health and well-being
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: Collective Action Training (USA)
Role: Co-founder, Trainer and Consultant
Vision: Empower girls to be decision makers
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Shine On Publications (USA)
Role: Author
Vision: Bring light into children and teenager's lives by writing children books
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy (USA)
Role: Director
Vision: Equity and justice for all women and girls
Inspiring Challenge Establish a Women's Justice & Empowerment Center.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Reached my goal of raising half a million dollars for efforts toward women's justice and empowerment.
- Developed a partnership for a Women's Re-Entry Team to help incarcerated victims of violence with a new goal of raising 1 million dollars by December 2011.
- Organized a Women and Girls Summit for 173 adults and 130 girls.

Organization: Stanford University (USA)
Role: Former Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Vision: In search of cultural competence: understanding our world
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Unknown (USA)
Vision: Advocating for Rights of the Elderly Utilizing Cross-Generational Partnerships
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Forrester Research (USA)
Role: Account Director
Vision: Provide fundraising and local mentoring opportunities to Turkish professional woman in the Bay Area
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Black Women for Wellness (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Provide accessible healthcare for black women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: Cisco Systems (USA)
Role: Collaboration Strategist, Brand Identity Manager
Vision: Further collaboration through women's leadership
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting women leaders at work
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Co-developing Cisco Connected Women, an Employee Resource Group that facilitate the professional growth of female employees

Organization: Alfred University (USA)
Role: Director, Women's Leadership Center
Vision: To empower young women to serve as change coaches to assist, support, and educate other women toward their own self-reliance in their financial, personal, political, professional, physical and spiritual life arenas.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Earning my doctorate in four years including coursework and writing my dissertation while working a full time job and commuting 2+ hours a day.
- Keeping a happy marriage.

Organization: Women's Initiative for Self Employment (USA)
Role: CEO
Vision: Transform Women Initiative into an international organization, moving from creating 5,000 jobs to 500,000.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality (3)
Accomplishments:
- Women's Initiative for Self-Employment builds the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome social and economic barriers and ultimately achieve self-sufficiency.
- Women's Initiative is in the process of expanding nationally. Julie Castro Abrams, as current CEO, has raised some of the necessary funds. She plans to use the funds to offer leadership courses in Chicago and New York.

Organization: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (USA)
Role: Director, Office for Women
Vision: An energized community of faculty, staff, and students pursuing opportunities for full participation, shared influence and equity among women and men in creating excellence in teaching and learning; research, scholarship and creative activity; and civic engagement on a local, national and global scale
Inspiring Challenge: Programming to celebrate our 15th year anniversary; A "Women Creating Excellence at IUPUI" exhibit; Mentoring programs for research faculty and students
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Participation and collaboration at a Gender and Leadership conference sponsored by the Institute for Gender Equity Research and Development at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya; Recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Committee

Organization: Capgemini (USA)
Role: Global Alliance Manager
Vision: Enabling women to tap into appropriate support resources for transformation
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Cardea Center For Women (USA)
Role: Founding President
Vision: A world without barriers to women's aspirations and their advancement
Inspiring Challenge: Promote women's access to opportunities across the Silicon Valley region and to facilitate the personal and professional well-being, advancement and equality of all women and girls
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4)
Accomplishments:
- Transition from a virtual women center to a financially-supported office that is a  dynamic gathering place for women in Silicon Valley
- Initiate the Consortium for Collaborative Solutions with other non-profits to address our common needs and share resources in these harsh economic times

Organization: Sullivan, Ballog & Williams (USA)
Role: Associate Attorney
Vision: Connecting stories of militarization for community based cross-cultural education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Mental Research Institution (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Helping troubled youth and families
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Women's Success Connection (USA)
Role: Founder
Vision: Forum to give for businesswomen the opportunity to earn, learn and serve
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Network of Care (USA)
Role: Program Officer
Vision: Providing bags of non-perishable foods to the families of children in pediatric wards
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Cisco Systems (USA)
Role: Sr. Program Manager, Internet Technologies
Vision: Impacting communities by empowering women in technology
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: The Paradigm Shifts Coaching Group (USA)
Role: CEO, Coach and Author
Vision: Empowering individuals and organizations to implement actions that create great results
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Unknown (USA)
Vision: Transform the school system so that it is more responsive
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)