Women are Redefining the C-Suite
The CEO of digitalundivided notes, ‘Don’t underestimate the potential of these new brands and businesses, because many of them are created by a new C-suite of Black and Latinx female entrepreneurs who are delivering value, influence, and driving the next economic...
Inspiring Young Women
More and more, women are paving the way for young girls to become leaders in their own communities. We hear every day of the accomplishments of African women—from the everyday front-line work of women against the pandemic to the elevation of others to positions of...
Bossed Up
Bossed Up is a career services company that equips women & marginalized people with the tools & community to create progress on their own terms. HOW WE ROLL: PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION We get it: life is messy. The journey towards achieving your most audacious...
Miley Dias
Marley Dias is a purpose-driven 16-year-old founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks and author of Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You! The 2021 Ambassador of National Educational Association (NEA) Read Across America. Host and Executive Producer of Netflix’s Bookmarks:...
By Us For Us
The year after its founding, By Us For Us (BUFU) was crowned “The Dopest NYC Art Collective You’ve Never Heard Of” by Vibe magazine, which was both accurate and conveyed something of its unique high-low mash-up sensibility. The group’s approach is grounded in...
The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weem’s Vision
A book published by MIT Press features essays and reflections In “Mourning,” a black and white photograph from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s 2008 series Constructing History, two women dressed in black sit next to each other on wooden chairs. Their expressions are solemn....
Calida Rawles
‘I use soft colours people wouldn’t associate with black men’ The LA-based painter talks about how her hyper-realistic work reflects and challenges society’s ideas about black lives “I’ve never walked in the shoes of a black man. I don’t know what it’s like to be a...
The Black Artists + Designers Guild
OUR MISSION BADG is building a more equitable and inclusive creative culture by advancing a community of independent Black makers in creative industries. We are committed to honoring our ancestral legacies in art and design, taking ownership of our narrative, and...
Black women turn to doulas
Black women in the U.S. are more likely to die in childbirth than other races. Naomi, a 37-year-old Black woman from Portland, Oregon, will have a doula by her side when she gives birth to her seventh child, a daughter, later this month. By using a doula -- a trained...
Childbirth’s Unequal Burden
Going beyond statistics to end life-threatening racism in maternal care In July 2019, Erica Chidi called a friend, Stanford obstetrician Erica Cahill, MD, to ask for her help with an important project. Chidi, a sexual and reproductive health educator, aimed to help...
Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Our Mission Black Mamas Matter Alliance is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. We center Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice. Our Vision We envision a world where Black mamas...
4Kira4Moms
Kira Johnson tragically lost her life after a routine c-section at Cedars Sinai. Kira was allowed to bleed internally for more than 10 hours before the medical staff at Cedars Sinai took action. We fight to make sure this never happens to another mother. More women...
Women Using Their Platform for Good
Alicia Keys Alicia Keys is a modern-day Renaissance woman—a 15-time Grammy Award-winning artist/songwriter/musician/producer, an accomplished actress, a New York Times best-selling author, a film/television and Broadway producer an entrepreneur and a powerful force in...
Liya Kebede
Fashion didn’t change for Liya Kebede, but Liya Kebede helped change fashion. Here, the 42-year-old model, entrepreneur, and advocate opens up about finding the strength that has fueled her two-decade career. Paris, via Zoom. Liya Kebede is sitting at a desk in a room...
mothers2mothers
mothers2mothers (m2m) employs women living with HIV as Community Health Workers called Mentor Mothers. m2m Mentor Mothers work both at health facilities and door-to-door to improve the health of communities across ten African nations. They deliver life-changing...
lemlem
lemlem lemlem is an artisan-driven brand of beautiful women resort wear made entirely and responsibly in Africa, with a core mission of preserving the local art of weaving in Ethiopia and inspiring economic growth on the continent. Meaning to bloom and flourish in the...
Gender Equity in the Health Care Sector
Join us in our Gender Equal Health & Care Workforce Initiative The Government of France, the World Health Organization and Women in Global Health are partnering in 2021- the International Year of Health and Care Workers- on the Gender Equal Health and Care...
Women at the Forefront of Covid-19 Vaccine
While there is still a long way to go for women in global health to get the recognition, respect and relative conditions they deserve – at all levels and in all places – there are some notable breakthroughs. The world might be living the movie Contagion at present,...
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
Immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett helped to design the Moderna vaccine. Now she volunteers her time talking about vaccine science with people of color. Even before Corbett took on one of the most challenging tasks of her professional career, she was a force to be...
One Campaign: 2021
Defeating the COVID-19 pandemic will take all of us. Let’s stand as one and urge world leaders to join a global pandemic response plan. People all over the world are standing in solidarity with each other to fight coronavirus, but the virus keeps moving fast. The...
Young Women are Dropping Out of School
While much of the economy is beginning to bounce back, young people — particularly young women — are living a different reality. A recent report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, using the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,...
Girls Education
Investing in girls’ education transforms communities, countries and the entire world. Girls who receive an education are less likely to marry young and more likely to lead healthy, productive lives. They earn higher incomes, participate in the decisions that most...
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D.
"We live at a time when the world looks to women for leadership, wisdom, intelligence and strength. Women in the 21st century are expected to step forward with consequential voices and exceptional skills to lead consequential lives. Women are expected to play a major...
Malala Fund
With more than 130 million girls out of school today, we’re breaking down barriers that hold girls back. Investing in Local Education Activists Through our Education Champion Network, we invest in local educators and advocates — the people who best understand girls in...