Tag Archives: Leadership
A summer camp of one’s own
Tweet Who among us hasn’t heard the oft repeated quotation from Mahatma Gandi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world”? Well, as I was sitting in front of 80 high school aged-girls last week talking about body image, media activism, gender, feminism, and so much more, it occurred to me that a [...]
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Nadia Al-Sakkaf and Yemen’s ongoing fight
TweetCheck out the editor of the Yemen Times, Nadia Al-Sakkaf, talking with Paley Center President Pat Michell at TEDGlobal, about uprising, the power of the press, and women’s ingenuity. As TED explains: “Al-Sakkaf’s independent, English-language paper is vital for sharing news–and for sharing a new vision of Yemen and of that country’s women as equal [...]
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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, and the danger of the single story
Tweet“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home…” or so says Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, who was profiled in a recent issue of The New Yorker. Sandberg has been traveling the speaking circuit for the last year or so, talking about what women need to do [...]
You go (shy) girl!
Tweet“I think it’s important for shy girls to be able to be seen as leaders too,” said the, no doubt, shy girl sitting among a circle of 20 or so middle schoolers at a girls’ leadership summer camp. We were brainstorming a list of leadership qualities that we–not the media, not parents, not teachers, not [...]
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This is why we need more women in student leadership