Santa Clara University

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: Tempest Productions (USA-based)
Role: Playwright and Artistic Director
Vision: Ending sex trafficking around the world
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Led a national campaign based on the play, "BODY & SOLD", to raise awareness about sex trafficking of American children and teens

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: Afghan Women's Network (Afghanistan)
Role: Former Media and Project Officer
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)

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: 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: Mujeres Yaquis Jamut Boo'o (Mexico)
Role: Programs Coordinator
Vision: Training center for indigenous women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Kasimu Education Fund (Malawi)
Role: Co-Founder
Vision: Break the cycles of poverty, disease and hunger by improving educational opportunities, making a direct impact on the prosperity of the impoverished Manyesa area
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Women's Earth Alliance (USA-based)
Role: Founder, Co-Director
Vision: Partner with grassroots organizations internationally to holistically build the capacities of women leaders who are addressing acute environmental and climate challenges in their communities
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Rancho Agropecuario Vallejo (Mexico)
Role: General Manager and Owner, Vanilla Vallejo
Vision: Support indigenous women by developing a Tropical Farmers Network
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Machu Picchu Gallery of the Americas, Inca Gardens (USA-based)
Role: Owner of Art Gallery and Peruvian Restaurant
Vision: Empower people of the Americas, their culture and natural resources
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: PEN International (Kenya)
Role: President of PEN Kenya, Writer, Poet and Journalist
Vision: A world where freedom includes free expression
Inspiring Challenge: Preparing a website on all African authors and local African languages and writing 'Invincibile Nubian' as well as other works of fiction and non-fiction
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Published several books including "Kenya, Will you Marry Me?" and "Leading the Night"

Organization: Kabul University (Afghanistan)
Role: Dean of the Women's Council, Head of Library and Professor of Science
Vision: Begin a Women's Studies Department at Kabul University
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment: Formed a new Women's Center at Kabul University in May 2007

Organization: Renri LLC (Japan)
Role: Founder and Senior Partner
Vision: Restoring coral reefs in Okinawa
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: EMC Corporation (USA)
Role: Executive and Founding President, West Coast Women's Leadership Forum
Vision: Empowers EMC women on the west coast at all stages of their professional and personal development
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Akina Mama wa Afrika (Uganda)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: A world in which there is social, economic and political autonomy of African women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Global Niche and Linqto Turkiye (Turkey)
Role: COO and Vice President of Business Development
Vision: Supporting creative self-enterprise
Inspiring Challenge: Enabling creative entrepreneurships of people in the global community through web-based programs that use a combination of technology and personal development.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)
Accomplishment: Establishing a connected and growing community of global citizens through Global Niche and empowering their businesses through digital commerce and virtual gatherings

Organization: Embassy of the Republic of Poland (Poland)
Role: Ambassador to Georgia
Vision: Create network to promote democratic change in Crimea, Ukraine with the Tartar People
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)