Feb 14, 2021 | Girls We Love
Search for: Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist from Uganda . She was the First Fridays For Future climate activist in Uganda and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement, which aims to amplify the voices of activists from Africa. Her work includes raising awareness...
Feb 14, 2021 | Girls We Love
Search for: Amanda Gorman captivated the world when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jan. 20 Inauguration ceremony. Sitting just feet away from the 22-year-old that day was former First Lady Michelle Obama,...
Jan 18, 2021 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: Angela Davis is not just an image on a wall or a talking head in a documentary. She remains a vital presence in the world, lecturing at major universities and advising young activists, like the Dream Defenders, a group founded in 2012 after the killing...
Dec 15, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Girls We Love
Search for: Maya Penn is a 20 year old phenom, award-winning founder and CEO of eco-fashion brand Maya’s Ideas, keynote speaker, sustainability consultant, 3 time TED Speaker, artist, global activist, animator, filmmaker, social entrepreneur, coder and Simon &...
Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Leadership lessons from senior African-American women by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, Robin J. Ely, and David A. Thomas Any list of top CEOs reveals a startling lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32...
Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: There’s a vignette that Senator Kamala Harris likes to tell about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. It’s a well-trodden soundbite that has proliferated into hashtags and official 2020 campaign merchandise, but the commercialization shouldn’t detract...
