Team
 |
|
Lili Fournier - Executive Producer
Lili Fournier produced and directed the award winning Women of Wisdom and Power specials on PBS which featured some of
today's most fascinating and influential women, including Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Twist, Alanis Morissette and
Shirley MacLaine, et al. Her critically acclaimed Quest specials featured today's most influential thinkers on life issues:
Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Thomas Moore, et al.
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Louis J. Horvitz - Executive Producer/Director
Few can match the reputation or experience of Lou Horvitz. This Four Time Emmy Award Winning Director, currently directed the
Academy Awards for the 9th year in a row. He has directed ten Primetime Emmy Awards shows, a dozen People's Choice Awards
celebrations, Live Aid, Net Aid, The American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards, The Kennedy Center Honors, the Super
Bowl Half time show and for the past 10 years acted as both Executive Producer and Director of An Evening of Stars benefiting
the United Negro College Fund.
|
He is regarded not only as a pioneering figure in Live broadcasting of entertainment events but a cutting edge and contemporary
force in the global broadcasting arena.
|
 |
|
Pida Ripley, MA AKC - Co-Producer
Driven by a passion for justice, Pida Ripley founded WomenAid International in 1987. She served on the UNICEF-UK National Board
for five years, as well as Vice President of the United Nations Association, an organization she has been actively involved in
for 25 years. She founded the Woman of the World Awards 10 years ago. Collaboration in progress.
|
Co-Chair
|
|
|
|
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro - Co-Chair
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro is the General Secretary of the World WYCA, a global movement of 25 million women and girls in 122
countries. The YWCA has been in the forefront of advocating for women's and girl's rights. Guided by her leadership,
the World YWCA empowers women and girls to lead social and economic change around the world. Her idea led to the founding
of the African Women's Funding Network
|
|
|
Honorary Patrons & Counselors
 |
|
Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and the first black person to lead
the Anglican Church in South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee, who cited his role as a
�unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.� After the fall of apartheid,
he headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999.
|
|
|
|
Leah Tutu
Leah Tutu is the wife and partner of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 1998, Desmond and Leah Tutu established The Desmond Tutu Peace Trust,
whose mission is to nurture peace by promoting ethical, visionary, values-based human development.
|
Tendzin Choegyal
Tendzin Choegyal, the brother of the Dalai Lama, studied with the Jesuits in Darjeeling, spent many years living in a monastery and
doing extensive studies in comparative religions. He has been a key administrator for Tibetan affairs. His major passion is for
personal and societal transformation.
|
|
|
|
Dadi Janki
World Spiritual Leader, Dadi Janki, heads the Brahma Kumaris. Under her guidance, centers now exist in nearly 100 countries.
She refuses to set limits and inspires others to believe that they too can make the impossible, possible.
The Brahma Kumaris
is an (NGO) with general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and UNICEF. It supports the UN
Millennium Development Goals through programs promoting education; gender equality and empowerment of women;
www.bkwsu.org
|
|
|
Strategic Partners
| |
|
|
 |
|
World YWCA Since 1855, the YWCA has been at the forefront of empowering women and girls who advocate for their
rights and lead social, political, economic and civic change. Today the YWCA reaches more than 25 million women and girls in 122
countries, providing them with the space and skills to develop leadership for the benefit of entire communities.
www.worldywca.info
"Our common purpose is the development of women leaders who commit themselves to work for change in their communities and beyond" - Dr Musimbi Kanyoro, General Secretary, World YWCA
|
| |
|
|
  |
WomenAid International is a humanitarian organization working around the world to support and address critical issues related
to women's human rights, economic independence, access to education and the cessation of violence against women. www.womenaid.org
|
 |
UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund works for women's empowerment and Gender Equality. It helps women and children in over
a hundred countries worldwide. www.unifem.org
View UNIFEM Letter of Support
|
 |
SAVE THE CHILDREN, was listed as one of the top ten charities in the U.S. The organization, with operations in 40 countries is a
leader in creating real and lasting change for children and women in need. www.savethechildren.org
|
|
 |
|
Equality Now, an international women's rights organization based in New York, London and Nairobi. Equality Now works
to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Issues of
concern to Equality Now include:
RAPE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS TRAFFICKING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION GENDER DISCRIMINATION
www.equalitynow.org
|
  |
Free the Children, the largest network of children helping children through education in 45 countries in the world.
www.freethechildren.org
Founded by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has an established track-record of success,
with three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize and partnerships with the United Nations, and Oprah's Angel Network.
|
 |
The National Council of Women's Organizations is a nonpartisan, nonprofit umbrella organization of over 200 groups that
collectively represent more than ten million women across the United States. The only national coalition of its kind,
NCWO has over twenty years' experience uniting American women's groups.
www.womensorganizations.org
See Letter of Endorsement
OTHER STRATEGIC PARTNERS IN PROGRESS
|
Advisory Board
We would like to take a minute to thank all those that have given us their support for this global event.
View Advisory Board
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What kind of world is forming
now, beyond this winter of war
and sorrow, of poverty, pollution and death? In the winter,
we foresee the spring.
Those with a positive vision of the future give us an image of a world on this planet where all things are given freely,
where the highest human potential is fully realized. But we can get to that stage only when there are leaders to take us there.
Dadi Janki
|
