Santa Clara University

Organization: African Medical and Research Foundation (Tanzania)
Role: Tanzania Country Director
Vision: Opening access to health care by including rural communities in decision making
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: International Museum of Women (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Using art to accelerate global attention on women's maternal health rights
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (Kenya)
Role: Programme Officer
Vision: Linking sponsors with needy children to advance educational opportunities
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

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: United Nations World Food Programme (Kenya)
Role: Programme Officer
Vision: Enrolling women in conflict prevention and peace building
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: TerraFocus (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Women everywhere have the opportunity to reach their full potential in a world where they are appreciated and valued.
Inspiring Challenge: Change US policies from a focus on national security to a focus on global human security
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)
Accomplishments:
- Co-chairing a joint initiative between the Global Fund for Women and Women Donors Network members - Beyond Militarism: Women Building a Just Peace.
- Participating in several forums working on peace and security, specifically from a women's perspective.

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: American Bar Association (Armenia)
Role: Legal Education Reform Senior Staff Attorney
Vision: Delivering legal services directly to rural Armenians
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (Costa Rica)
Role: Planning Department Director
Vision: To promote and respect human rights of migrants
Inspiring Challenge: Establish an academic chair on human rights
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- To introduce the project in operative plans in the national and regional level.
- The design of the Academic Chair program for the protection of migrant human rights.

Organization: Mother Mary's Children Center (Malawi)
Role: Director
Vision: Securing health and education for orphaned children
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Advocates International (Cameroon)
Role: Judge and Head of Advocates Cameroon
Vision: Justice with compassion for everyone
Inspiring Challenge: Establishing birth certificates for destitute children
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- Established birth certificates for several destitute children.
- Used the birth certificates to register most of these children for their end of course examination.

Organization: Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas (Columbia)
Role: Director
Vision: Directing programs which generate peace and security for displaced women
Inspiring Challenge: Seek the restitution of human rights for the two million women who suffer discrimination, inequality and social injustice and have survived internal armed conflict
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: The World Justice Project (USA)
Role: Director, Mainstream Initiatives
Vision: A world where women have the rights and resources they need to thrive
Inspiring Challenge: Create a global portal to connect women and create a "community of practice" around the issue of women's land rights by building a digital library containing laws and resources on women's property rights from every country in the world -- free and accessible to anyone
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- We won a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (for $1 million!) to support our work to help women strengthen their land rights.
- We also built partnerships with the World Bank, American Bar Association and the Thompson-Reuters Foundation via the Women's TrustLaw hub to support our digital library on women's land rights. (LandWise.org)

Organization: World Wide Fund for Nature (Pakistan)
Role: Community Development Officer
Vision: Building ecological and economic security for marginalized mountain people
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Blue Planet Network (Kenya)
Role: Maasai Warrior and Elder, Activist for Safe Drinking Water
Vision: Educating girls by liberating them from the task of hauling water
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Destiny Foundation (India)
Role: Founder & Director
Vision: Liberate victims of trafficking- through sustainable employment and skill and capacity building
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting more survivor women to Destiny and meeting project deadline
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Partnership developed with Hyatt Regency, a global hospitality company having 450 chains, in order to bring awareness on human trafficking.
- Participate in the international Trade Fair at Milan (Italy) to sell products made by Destiny survivors and build awareness.

Organization: Documentation Center of Cambodia (Cambodia)
Role: Outreach Staff Member
Vision: Promoting victim participation in genocide trials for national reconciliation
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (Italy)
Role: Grants Manager
Vision: Building sustainable hunger solutions to further women's leadership
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Human Rights Advocacy Center (Ghana)
Role: Project Officer and Coordinator
Vision: Educating children to advocate for their rights
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Oracle (USA)
Role: Community Outreach Manager
Vision: To create an online community in which women play a stronger role
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: World Wildlife Fund (Kenya)
Role: Conservation Education Program Manager
Vision: Generating sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation for riparian communities
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)