Santa Clara University

Organization: Mountain Children's Foundation (India)
Role: President
Vision: To build global citizenship in children
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting mountain children all over the world.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- Since my participation in the Women Leaders for the World (WLW) 2009 program, the Mountain Children's Foundation has been participating in deliberations for and with children at a national level that impacts national policy.
- Our own team has increased in strength and we have signed meaningful partnerships.

Organization: Project Concern International (India)
Role: Project Manager
Vision: To create a "Zero Garbage" world
Inspiring Challenge: To have 350,000 families in Pune segregate their garbage by December 31, 2010.
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Mercedes-Benz A.S. (Turkey)
Role: Marketing Communications, Team Leader
Vision: A world where everybody is socially responsible
Inspiring Challenge: Mercedes-Benz Turkey Foundation
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)
Accomplishment: I learned how to be calm and relaxed under very bad and stressed conditions. I have the energy to present my idea, support it very hard, and work on the idea until the end. I have the energy to make people aware and move for social responsibility and make change in life.

Organization: Life Bloom Services International (Kenya)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Dignity among women who have experienced abuse
Inspiring Challenge: Building a "One Stop Center" for women and girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Training a team of 15 women leaders on some basics of authentic leadership.
- Kicking off the construction of the "One Stop Center," with the women getting down to do the physical work (this has been mainly a male occupation in our community).

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: Asante Africa Foundation (Kenya)
Role: Co-Founder, School Principal, Maasai Tribe Member
Vision: Provide shelter, training and education to widows and girls to transform their future.
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, acquire 50 acres of land to provide shelter for 50 widows and complete four classrooms and a resource center to provide education and vocation training for girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Forum for African Women Educationalists (Zambia)
Role: Senior Programme Coordinating Officer
Vision: A world where girls and women lead technological innovations
Inspiring Challenge: By December 20102, establish a cutting edge technology teachers' resource center that will empower 200 teachers to effectively teach math, science and technology subjects to 2,500 girls in Serenje district, Zambia.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: The GoDown Arts Centre (Kenya)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: To inspire youth to use their talents in the arts in being effective agents of change in Kenya.
Inspiring Challenge:
- Through an artistically rich television program, use cultural operators as primary sources of influences for the youth in issues of National importance e.g., governance, crime.
- Create photo exhibitions of the post-election violence (Kenya 2007/8) as a reminder to people of their responsibility as citizens in the upcoming elections.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- We managed to run a successful campaign around the country "Never Forget, Never Again" on the post election violence in 2009/2010.
- The GoDown received support for a television programme to sensitize youth through artists and cultural operators, giving us a platform to influence the youth in Kenya.

Organization: Kennesaw State University and Ariel Gallery (USA)
Role: Art Education Administrator, Professor and Gallery Owner
Vision:
- Make the invisible visible by creating websites for nonprofit organizations, helping them to step into 21st century technology.
- Create sustainable income for people creating indigenous crafts by helping them with design, teaching them to market and placement of their work.
Inspiring Challenge:
- Create websites for nonprofit organizations around the globe, working with my students who design the sites and gain intercultural skills.
- Place arts and crafts directly with buyers and with retail outlets.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- I have placed over $30,000 of crafts for artists in 6 different countries.
- My Kennesaw State University class, which focuses on designing websites for nonprofits around the globe, has created five working websites and eight more in production.

Organization: Women's Earth Alliance (Ghana)
Role: Sub-Saharan African Program Director
Vision: Empower and equip all women and girls to be whole women, whole leaders to fulfill their visions for a whole world.
Inspiring Challenge: Create a dynamic partnership between the Women's Earth Alliance and the Global Women's Water Initiative, working on women's rights to water, land, farming and basic human dignity.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Dining for Women (USA)
Role: Co-Founder and President
Vision: To eradicate world poverty by creating a new paradigm of giving
Inspiring Challenge: To raise two million dollars for an endowment fund by June 30, 2010. This will allow 100% of diner donations to continue going directly to programs.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)

Organization: Room to Read (South Africa)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: A world in which all children read
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, train 400 teachers in two African countries to teach children to read.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Self Help Africa (Uganda)
Role: Gender and Credit Coordinator
Vision: Eradication of Domestic Violence
Inspiring Challenge: Prevention of domestic violence
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Starting a community based initiative on the prevention of all forms of violence against women.
- Completing a Masters in Development Studies and writing a dissertation entitled "Gendered effects of Pastoralist-Cultivator Conflicts on family livelihoods".

Organization: UN World Food Programme (Uganda)
Role: Programme Assistant
Vision: To transform subsistence women farmers in Uganda to commercial agricultural production.
Inspiring Challenge: By December 30, 2010, have a 100 women farmers association formed and 100,000 metric tonnes of food sold by the association to sustainable markets.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)

Organization: Technoserve (Kenya)
Role: Senior Business Manager, Entrepreneurship
Vision: To work with girls and young women in Kenya to discover and develop their ability to make a living.
Inspiring Challenge: Start 50 enterprise/business clubs for 2,000 girls in and out of high school in Nairobi slums by December 2010.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Save for Health (Uganda)
Role: Coordinator
Vision: A community where women have financial access to quality health care
Inspiring Challenge: 2000 women managing their enterprises
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: Karumdanismanlik Ve Dis Tic LTD (Turkey)
Role: Owner and Manager
Vision: Increase the prosperity level in country through the development of women entrepreneurs by "Women-Up" web portal
Inspiring Challenge: 500 paid members to Women-Up portal by the end of December 31, 2010.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (India)
Role: Project Coordinator
Vision: A safer life with zero tolerance to violence for women and children
Inspiring Challenge: By December 2010, create 100 zero tolerance to violence clubs in schools and colleges to teach them the benefits of healthy relationships in their lives.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: USAID, Economic Growth (Iraq)
Role: Deputy Director
Vision: Build a sustainable Iraqi economy
Inspiring Challenge: Building an umbrella organization for Iraqi Business Associations connected to resources inside and outside Iraq. By mid-2010, the national network of 40 business associations will be launched.
Millennium Development Goal: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)