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What Do We Owe Each Other?

By on March 1, 2013 in Impact Assessment, Stories of Impact, Women's Empowerment, Youth Development

  A few days ago, I was sitting in a café being interviewed for a friend’s research project on the global social contract–the collective norms and sense of responsibility that we are developing together through institutions and the increase in interactions and communications across the world. My friend asked me towards the end of the interview: [...]

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Building a Revenue Model

By on December 10, 2012 in Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth Development

If you were a teenager living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, how much would you pay for world-class leadership training? There’s been a lot of productive talk lately about how organizations working for social change should make their money. As a real believer in markets, particularly in their ability to spur development, I’ve [...]

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Precipice

By on December 3, 2012 in Health, Starting the Journey, Youth Development

It’s a quarter to 9pm PST and I’m currently squatting in a coffee shop on Palo Alto’s University Avenue. I wasn’t able find a place on campus with free Wi-Fi, so I traipsed over here. I’m living in New York now, but happened to fly out just a few days ago for a friend’s wedding. [...]

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It All Started in a Dorm Room.

By on November 16, 2012 in Featured, Social Entrepreneurship, Starting the Journey, Women's Empowerment, Youth Development

When people ask me how on earth I ended up starting my non-profit Women LEAD at the age of 20, I often don’t know what to respond. The process of starting Women LEAD is full of moments of luck meeting opportunity.  If you had told me 4 years ago that I would be co-founding a [...]

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