Diane Caldwell, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Medford, MA

Diane Caldwell has been a leader in the educational community for over twenty years serving dually as an Academic Support Administrator as well as a supervisor of the Title 1 program for Medford Public Schools. She studied elementary education at Boston State College as well as completing the Master’s program at Regis College in Special Education. Ms. Caldwell has an extensive background in education that has aided students from all walks of life in both primary and secondary levels of schooling. Throughout her career, she has striven to improve the learning experience of her students, always going the extra mile whether it was directing a school musical or implementing new reading programs. Her successes have expanded well outside the traditional classroom. Ms. Caldwell has helped shape academic curriculums for large, as well as individual educational plans to meet the specific needs of students in both regular classrooms and special education programs. In addition to helping students, she has worked with institutions of higher learning such as Brown University, Fitchburg State, and Salem State College to help facilitate professional development for faculty and colleagues, to give teachers the best tools available in order to help students read and write more effectively and efficiently. Ms. Caldwell has been a leader in the Commonwealth in helping prepare students for MCAS testing, while simultaneously working to maintain a collaborative relationship with parents. Ms. Caldwell received her Master's in Educational Administration from Lesley University. Outside of education, Diane Caldwell enjoys traveling, reading, and playing golf.

Jane Christo, Edward R. Murrow Center at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Ms. Christo has been affiliated with the Fletcher School’s Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, since 2004, where she conducts journalism symposia. Prior to her association with Fletcher, Jane Christo served as General Manager of WBUR from 1981 to 2004. She developed WBUR into a news station that today is one of the most influential broadcast news institutions in Boston. Through years of innovative and original programming, Jane has been instrumental in catapulting Public Radio from alternative broadcasting to a nationally recognized, respected and influential source of news and information. In addition, Jane designed and developed a program for journalists reporting in fledgling democracies. Jane’s vision for mentoring journalists began as new democracies were forming in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Soviet Union. The financial support of the U.S. Department of State and the United States Information Agency allowed Jane to establish the International Training Project. From 1992 to 2004, she directed twenty programs for nearly 100 media professionals from the Balkans, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Jane directed workshops, seminars and individual mentoring, both in those countreies and in the US, designed to address the challenges confronted by journalists in their daily work. The programs covered topics such as reporting on human trafficking and reporting in areas of conflict. Jane Christo received a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Boston University. Jane lives with her husband, Van, in Brookline, Massachusetts. They have a grown son, Zachary. Jane and Van are proud to have been able to sponsor and financially support seven young people from Eastern Europe to live and become educated in the United States.

Susan Hackley, Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School is a world-renowned interdisciplinary research center dedicated to improving the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. As Managing Director, Susan Hackley oversees all of PON's activities, which include research projects, conferences, special events, and educational programs. She also manages the publication of a variety of books and teaching materials, including the monthly Negotiation newsletter and the quarterly Negotiation Journal. Susan has taught negotiation seminars in China, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain and Italy. Before joining PON, she worked in politics as a policy analyst and served as communications director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. As a writer/photographer, she has had work published in National Geographic Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. She also co-founded an e-philanthropy site dedicated to helping people connect to causes they care about. Susan has a Masters Degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and served three years as chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.

Karen A. McLaughlin, Human Trafficking and Victim Rights Expert

Karen McLaughlin is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in victim assistance and violence prevention. In the United States, Ms. McLaughlin has pioneered the development of victim service programs within the criminal justice system and community agencies at the state and national level. Ms. McLaughlin served for five years from 2005-2010 as the director of the Massachusetts Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Presently, Ms. McLaughlin continues to serve the interests of crime victims by working to strengthen global efforts to combat human trafficking under a grant funded by the United States Department of State. In her current role, she is a consultant for a groundbreaking national initiative to end demand for human trafficking sponsored by the Hunt Alternatives Fund.

In the international arena, Ms. McLaughlin was elected in 2008 to the International Scientific Professional and Advisory Council (ISPAC) of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. She currently chairs ISPAC’s Victim Assistance and Victimization Prevention Committee. Ms. McLaughlin has been a long-standing member of the World Society of Victimology’s United Nations Liaison Committee. For nearly a decade, much of Ms. McLaughlin’s work has focused on victims of transnational crime. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist strike, Ms. McLaughlin directed a national terrorism project which addressed the impact of the attack on thousands of victims and their families and evaluated the country’s response, recovery and preparedness in the aftermath of this national tragedy. Additionally, the United Nations Terrorism Prevention Branch sought her expertise as a result of her work in responding to the families of the victims of the Pan Am 103 terrorist attack over Lockerbie, Scotland.

In 1997, in recognition of her accomplishments at the state, national and international levels, she was presented with the National Crime Victim Service Award, the highest federal honor for service to victims. Bestowed by President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Attorney General Janet Reno, this prestigious acknowledgement was a tribute to Ms McLaughlin’s tireless efforts on behalf of underserved victim populations.

From 1989-1991, Ms. McLaughlin was president of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). She was instrumental in establishing the first state and national victim assistance crisis response teams to respond in the immediate aftermath of mass catastrophes, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her volunteer service to victims of crime and mass causalities has taken her to numerous countries consulting with governments and non-governmental organizations.

In her former capacity working on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1992-2002, Ms. McLaughlin created several national model curricula and protocols for law enforcement, prosecutors and victim services and educators. For nearly a decade in the 1990s she directed the Justice Department’s National Center for Hate Crime Prevention, where she created the country’s first curriculum to respond to and prevent bias crime. She co-authored, “Healing the Hate,” the first national curriculum that dealt with hate crime prevention. She trained thousands of professionals to address crimes resulting from prejudice. Her groundbreaking work on bystanders, cooperative learning and peer education has won numerous awards from civil rights and human rights groups. Her teaching tools were disseminated to over 15,000 educational institutions in the U.S. as well as thousands of youth programs throughout the nation and internationally.

Margaret A. McKenna, President, Suffolk University; Board Member, Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education; Visiting Professor of the Practice, Heller School, Brandeis University; Former President, Wal-Mart Foundation

Margaret McKenna is an educator and lawyer who has spent her career advocating for social justice. McKenna began her work life as a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Later in her career, she served as Deputy Counsel in the White House, Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education and led the education transition team for President Clinton. McKenna’s educational achievements include a role as Vice President of Radcliffe College and twenty-two years as president of Lesley University and as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. During her tenure at Lesley, the college grew from 2,000 to over 10,000 students, from a college to a university and from a small regional college to a nationally recognized leader in teacher education From 2007 - 2011 she led the Walmart Foundation and in that role created a strategy that emphasized hunger relief, education and the economic empowerment of women. During her term, the Foundation provided more than $900 million in grants annually. McKenna is an author, speaker and an expert on issues of educational access, women’s economic empowerment, hunger and social change leadership. She has served on five corporate and dozens of non-profit boards and is the recipient of ten Honorary Degrees. She presently serves as a fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Ascend program, working on two-generation poverty issues.

Sharmila L. Murthy, Professor, Suffolk Law School

Sharmila L. Murthy recently joined the faculty of Suffolk Law as an Assistant Professor, where she will be teaching property and international environmental law. Her research focuses on questions at the intersection of human rights, poverty, and the environment. She is particularly interested in examining legal and policy barriers to equitable water access and sustainable water management. She has written on the meaning of the human right to water and sanitation under international law and the controversy over privatization; on the relationship between land security and water access in the slums of Mumbai, India; on the use of carbon markets to fund clean water projects; on the right to water in the Negev in Israel; on Iraq’s constitutional mandate to ensure the just distribution of water; and more broadly on questions of water governance.

Professor Murthy was previously at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she co-led the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program as a Fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. As a Fellow with the Sustainability Science Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, she also served as the Lead Investigator for the Water Sector in an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral research project on "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development." During the 2013-2014 academic year at Suffolk, she will continue to be engaged in this research. Professor Murthy has also taught at Harvard executive education programs and at the Water Diplomacy Workshop organized by MIT and Tufts.

Professor Murthy received her JD from Harvard Law School, her MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and BS in Natural Resources from Cornell University. She clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in India and the recipient of the New Advocate of the Year award by the Tennessee Alliance of Legal Services. Prior to transitioning to academia, Professor Murthy was a Skadden Fellow with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and also litigated complex and class action litigation with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. She has also been active with numerous civic organizations and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the American Constitution Society Boston Lawyer Chapter.

Faisal Mushtaq, CEO, Millenium Schools Pakistan

Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq - Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, is a YPO and Education Chair of the world's leading Young Presidents Organization and is a national student counselor, academician, school practitioner and a social entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO of Roots Millennium Schools and is the Executive Director and member of the Board of Roots School System, Pakistan. He is also the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization “Change - in Education” working in support of public-private partnerships across education and thus scaling Millennium Development Goals. He has successfully reformed more than 100 government schools across various districts, provinces and rural communities in Pakistan. He has been conferred with the most prestigious National Civil Award of 'Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, TI' by the President of Pakistan H.E. Asif Ali Zardari on Pakistan Day Ceremony held at the Presidency on 23rd March 2013 in recognition of his outstanding services in the field of education, youth and promotion of Chinese Language across Pakistan as the national academic icon, educational change sponsor and globally recognized School and Education Management Practitioner. Mr. Mushtaq previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and with IBM Business Consulting Services in the United Kingdom before leading Roots Millennium Schools. Thousands of his students are studying at Oxbridge, Ivy Leagues, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, LSE, Kings College, UCL, IBA, LUMS, GIKI, NUST and Agha Khan Universities. He has founded the backbone of Roots Education System by establishing Pakistan's largest teacher training and development institute, the Roots National Institute of Teacher Training & Education (RNITTE), where more than 10,000 teachers from both public and private sector have been trained on international standards and successfully won placements. Mr. Mushtaq is a graduate from prestigious University of London, United Kingdom and University of Salford United Kingdom where he studied Economics, Accounting & Finance. He is also a graduate of the prestigious National Defense University NDU in Islamabad.

Andaleeb Nadeem, Esteemed Educator, Pakistan

Andaleeb Nadeem is an O and A level English language teacher in Pakistan. Soon after her Master’s Degree in English Literature, Andaleeb started her career as a journalist and a radio and TV newscaster in Islamabad. Always concerned about the improvement of the quality of life of women in Pakistan, she kept striving to facilitate their educational process. This strife eventually led to a career change when she sidelined her love for journalism and news casting to become a teacher, which enabled her to promote the awareness of education among Pakistani girls and young women. As a teacher, Andaleeb continues tirelessly to motivate parents to bring their daughters to schools. She also works unofficially with government schools to improve conditions for female students. In the midst of this struggle, Andaleeb found the Women2Women program to be very gratifying and always considered it to be a great platform for all young women in general, and the young women of the developing world in particular. For the past decade Andaleeb has been working hand in hand with the empowering program as she finds it to be a great support system in her eternal struggle for women's education and awareness. Her love of education becomame evident on a more personal level when her daughter attended graduate school at Columbia University in New York.

Todd Patkin, Author and Philanthropist

After graduating from Tufts University in 1987, Todd entered the family automotive parts business. For over 18 years, he, along with his brother Roger and his father Steve (founder) worked together and grew Foreign Autopart/Autopart International into one of the premiere wholesale automobile parts businesses in the country. The company was sold in September of 2005 to Advance Auto Parts, enabling Todd to leave the company and put all of his time and energy into what he loves most: spending time each day trying to help as many people as he can.

At age 36, Todd Patkin had an experience that completely changed the way he views the world: a debilitating nervous breakdown. On paper, he had everything: a great family, wonderful friends, and financial security—but that didn’t stop him from hitting rock bottom. From breakdown to breakthrough, Todd chronicles his journey out of the murky depths of depression and anxiety and into the light in his book, Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and—Finally—Let the Sunshine In. He is also the author of Twelve Weeks to Finding Happiness: Boot Camp for Building Happier People, and Destination: Happiness: The Travel Guide That Gets You from Here to There, Emotionally and Spiritually. Today, Todd travels the country speaking to various groups, telling his story and teaching people how they too can find their own happiness. Todd also runs the Todd G. Patkin Companies with investments in several different businesses, many of which were started by friends who needed a little bit of help. Todd funded Gary Marino’s Million Calorie March from Florida to Boston, and along with Gary, was the executive producer for Million Calorie March: The Movie. Todd’s charities focus on inner city children, the State of Israel and how to facilitate more open dialogue throughout America concerning the topic of depression. Todd also sits on many not-for-profit boards, including the executive committee boards for the Jewish National Fund (both locally and nationally) and The American Friends Board for Yemin Orde. Todd has been married to and in love with Yadira since October 1991, and they have Joshua, an amazing teenager. To learn more, visit www.toddpatkin.com.

Priti Rao, Former Executive Director, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus

Priti Rao most recently served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, a multi-partisan, non-profit organization committed to maximizing the participation of women of all ages in the political process and increasing the number of women appointed and elected to public office and public policy positions. Rao previously served as the organization's Associate Director and most recently as Acting Executive Director. Rao is a cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in Politics and Spanish. She has coordinated field activities for Congressional and City Council races in New York. Here in Massachusetts she worked in the successful campaign of Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, the first woman elected to Congress in 25 years. As Acting Executive Director and Associate Director, Rao worked to design and execute strategic political and field support that helped fuel the successful election of 5 MWPC endorsed women to the MA House of Representatives in 2008 and the 2009 election of Ayanna Pressley to the Boston City Council, the first woman of color ever to serve on the Council in its 100 year history.

Charlie Rose, Senior Vice President and Dean, City Year Inc.

Charlie Rose has been a youth worker, organizer, and entrepreneur in Boston for the past 34 years. He was the Director of Youth Services for the City of Boston’s Community Centers (now B.C.Y.F.) for nine years. Previous to that he was a VISTA volunteer, and a community and union organizer. He is an accomplished trainer, presenter, facilitator, auctioneer, poet and public speaker. He is currently Senior Vice President and Dean of City Year. Over the past 25 years he has helped build City Year into a national and international model for youth community service organizations and has been involved in all aspects of organizational development. He co-founded the City of Boston’s nationally recognized violence and gang prevention program called the Streetworker Program with Mr. Robert Lewis Jr. He founded the Youth Outreach Program (YOP), The City of Boston Peer Leadership Program, The Festival of HOPE and the Citywide Youth Congress, the Boston Youth Olympics and the Youth Worker Alliance (YWA). He is the co-founder and co-owner of a Boston neighborhood restaurant (Bella Luna) and entertainment complex which includes a nightclub and lounge (Milky Way Lounge). The for-profit venture was started as a community economic development project in Jamaica Plain section of Boston 20 years ago. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of LIFT Boston, The Young People’s Project (YPP) and on the Jackson Square LLC for Urban Edge Community Development Corporation and is actively involved with Project 351. In 2011, Charlie was awarded an honorary doctorate from U-Mass Boston. He is also the father of two beautiful children, AJ and Ruby, and the husband of the amazing Carol Downs.

Denis J. Sullivan, Co-Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development at Northeastern University

Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture & Development at Northeastern University.  Prof. Sullivan served as founding Director of Northeastern’s International Affairs Program from 1995 through 2011.  Under his leadership, the program has become the largest major at Northeastern University, which hosts over 750 majors and 200 minors. His first programs leading students abroad were in Egypt in 1994 and he formally established the Dialogue of Civilizations Program in 1998. He now manages the Dialogue Program, which operates in nearly 50 countries and facilitates international experiential learning for over 1,100 students annually, with the Study Abroad office at Northeastern. Prof. Sullivan has led more than 25 programs to the Middle East, enabling students to immerse themselves in and study Arabic language and culture, the history and politics of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Qatar, the Emirates, and the Arab World. The Dialogue of Civilizations Program received the Institute of International Education’s Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in 2011. Prof. Sullivan is the author of nearly three dozen journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries and a number of books, including Egypt: Global Security Watch, with Kimberly Jones, (Praeger, 2008); The World Bank and the Palestinian NGO Project: From Service Delivery to Sustainable Development (Jerusalem: PASSIA, 2001); Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (Boulder: L. Rienner, 1999); Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development, Private Initiative, and State Control (University Press of Florida, 1994); and Privatization & Liberalization in the Middle East, co-edited with Iliya Harik (Indiana University Press, 1992).

Prof. Sullivan has been a consultant to the World Bank, USAID, U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Defense, Council on Foreign Relations, colleges, universities, and human rights organizations, and has provided pro-bono consulting on political asylum cases for many years.

Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard, Professor of International Business, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard is a Professor of the Practice of International Business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises.  He is also a member of the International Business faculty at the Hult International Business School and at HHL - The Leipzig Graduate School of Management. For many years, he was a Principal at Arthur D. Little (ADL) in their Travel and Technology practice in Brussels and London. He is a recognized expert on technology-led change in the international communications, travel, and financial service industries. Prior to joining ADL, he directed world-wide strategy and technology partnerships for the Travel Division of American Express TRS Co. He has also run his own consulting firm and has owned and operated a hotel barge company in southern France. At Fletcher, he teaches courses in management consulting and in social network analysis. His doctoral dissertation focused on the use of technology in the formation of resistance networks that eventually led to peaceful regime change in Serbia in the 1990s.  His current research examines the roles that social networks and social media can play in building up institutions and civil society in post-revolutionary countries, and he is developing analytical methods to examine public and private social networks and their impact on organizations. Dr. Tunnard holds MA, MALD and PhD degrees from Fletcher, and he received his AB from Harvard.

Rev. Gloria Elaine White-Hammond, M.D., Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston; Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper

Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is the Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, MA, Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper, www.mskeeper.org, and a retired pediatrician from the South End Community Health Center. Dr. White-Hammond’s community service spans three decades and two continents. In 1994 she founded the church-based creative writing/mentoring ministry “Do The Write Thing” for high-risk adolescent females. The project has served over 200 young women through small groups in Boston public schools, juvenile detention facilities and on site at Bethel AME Church. From 2001-2003, Dr. White-Hammond traveled to war-torn South Sudan to participate in an elaborate “underground railroad” to facilitate the freedom of more than 10,000 people enslaved in northern Sudan during the civil war. The experience prompted her and five other women to co-found My Sister’s Keeper, a women-led humanitarian and human rights organization that champions social justice for women and girls in the United States and around the world. Since 2001, Dr. White-Hammond has made more than 25 trips into South Sudan, Sudan’s Darfur and Nuba Mountains regions, and Chad. The group is deeply committed to three pathways to sustainable peace. The Sisterhood for Peace Initiative supports a growing network of diverse Sudanese women in Sudan, South Sudan and the Diaspora, who collaborate across traditional boundaries of race, religion, ethnicity and geography to promote peace throughout and among their countries. The Kunyuk School for Girls, a primary school located in Akon, South Sudan began in 2003 with 100 girls. In 2008, MSKeeper completed the construction of the permanent campus for the school, now comprised of 550 students. In 2007, My Sister’s Keeper launched the Women’s Peace School, an adult literacy project also in Akon, which supports 200 women.

In 2006, Rev. White-Hammond served as the National Chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign. In 2008-2009, she was the national Chairwoman of the Save Darfur Coalition. In 2008, Dr. White-Hammond retired from the South End Community Health Center after serving 27 years as a dedicated pediatrician to families from some of Boston’s most challenged communities. Dr. White-Hammond is a graduate of Boston University (AB, 1972), Tufts University School of Medicine (MD, 1976) and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv, 1997). She is a member of the boards of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Alumni Association, Tufts University and United to End Genocide.

Lisa M. Wong, M.D., Pediatrician, Milton Pediatric Associates; Musician, Author

Dr. Lisa Wong is a pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. Passionate about the convergence of medicine and music, Dr. Wong is a member of the violin section in Boston’s Longwood Symphony Orchestra, where she served as President for 20 years. She is a founding member of Boston Arts Consortium for Health (BACH) and the Committee for Arts&Humanities@Harvard Medical School and on the Board of Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying Arts in Education. In April 2012, she published Scales to Scalpels: Doctors who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine, in collaboration with writer Robert Viagas. Dr. Wong is married to violinist Lynn Chang, and has two grown children.

Dalia Ziada, Executive Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies

Dalia Ziada, one of Egypt's leading human rights activists, is executive director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, a prominent Cairo-based NGO that advocates for human rights and civil freedoms in Egypt and throughout Arab World. After Egypt’s 2011 revolution, Dalia co-founded a political party and ran for parliament. Negative perceptions of women in Egyptian society prevented her from winning, but also motivated her to fight to improve the status of women in her native country. Previously, as founding director of the American Islamic Congress's Cairo-based Middle East and North Africa Bureau, Dalia focused on implementing grassroots field projects that educate citizens in the Muslim world about human rights, civil freedoms, nonviolent conflict, and religious tolerance.

Before joining AIC, Dalia worked for several local and regional NGOs. Major organizations have recognized Dalia's outstanding advocacy for women’s rights, civil freedoms, and liberal democracy in the Middle East, Dalia. She was named by Newsweek for two years in a row (2011-2012) as one of world’s most influential and most fearless women; named by CNN as one of the Arab World’s eight agents of change (2012); selected by The Daily Beast as one of the world’s bravest bloggers (2011); received the Tufts University Presidential Award for civil work (2011); received the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Journalist Award (2010); and was named by Time Magazine as a women's rights champion (2009). Dalia holds a Master's degree from the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Ilham Zhiri, Founding President, Moroccan Women Mentoring Network

Ilham Zhiri is a leading entrepreneur in Morocco with more than 16 years experience. She is the Founding President of Moroccan Women Mentoring Networking, a national association grouping women leaders from the public and private sectors who support and economically empower other women through an intensive mentoring process. Ms. Zhiri founded Moroccan Women Mentoring Networking in 2010 after benefiting herself from a mentoring process at a US Fortune 500 company under a programme run by the US State Department. Ms Zhiri is Managing Director of Imprimerie El Maarif Al Jadida, one of Morocco’s top five printing and publishing companies. She is a national board member of the National Council of the General Confederation of Moroccan Entrepreneurs (CGEM) and a member of the MENA Regional Advisory Committee of the social entrepreneurship advocacy body, SYNERGOS. She has also promoted female entrepreneurship for the past 10 years through the National Association of Female Entrepreneurs. In 2011, she was appointed General Secretary of the Moroccan chapter of the North Africa Partnership Economic Opportunity (NAPEO). She recently launched EMCC Maroc – representative of EMCC council wordwide. Ms. Zhiri holds a BSBA in Business and an MBA in International Business from the American University in Washington, D.C.

Greta Johnson, Women2Women 2015 Alumna, United States of America

Greta Johnson is a Women2Women 2015 Alumna. She has participated as an intern and worked directly with Empower Peace in organizing the conference, coordinating with speakers, finalizing vendors, managing the interns, and more from 2016-2018.

Greta spearheaded the founding of the Women2Women Alumnae Program in June of 2022, presented it for the very first time at W2W 2022 in Boston, MA, and with collaboration and support from Empower Peace and various alumnae across the globe, started the program in September of 2022. She is looking forward to scaling the Alumnae Program as it grows, and is excited for what the future holds.

Greta is currently a 3rd year Doctor of Pharmacy student at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology and Neurobiology from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. She is working part-time as a Pharmacist Intern and writer. Innovation is her passion, especially when it comes to entrepreneurship, science, and art. She is hoping to pursue a career in pharmacy while also fostering her creative initiatives.

Anna Walczak, Women2Women 2017 Alumna, Poland

Anna Walczak is a Women2Women Alumna, who participated in the program for the first time in 2017, representing her home country Poland. In 2018, Anna returned to Boston as an intern and remained in close contact with the Women2Women network ever since. Since September 2022, Anna is involved in Women2Women Alumnae Program, which aims to strengthen the relations between Women2Women Alumnae from all over the world.

Anna is currently a student of International and European Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During the first year of her bachelor’s degree, Anna co-created a student-led initiative “Our Rule of Law”, which focused on finding meaningful ways for students to engage in ongoing rule of law crises within the European Union. Our Rule of Law’s goal is to provide students with opportunities to learn about democratic backsliding in Europe from experts in the field and give them tools to combat them.

In the future, Anna’s goal is to continue her studies in the fields of European Law and human rights. Moreover, Anna’s dream is to continue working on projects, which focus on youth engagement and empowerment. There is really nothing that young people can’t do. It is just a matter of providing them with the right tools and encouragement.

Ana Lomba Correia, Women2Women 2017 Alumna, Portugal

Ana Lomba Correia first took part in the Women2Women International Leadership Program in Boston in 2017, in the first delegation of Portugal in the program. Ana has been coming back to the program as an Intern in every following edition. In October 2018, Ana launched Women2WomenPortugal, a national W2W program adapted to Portuguese young women context and necessities. In its first edition in September 2019, Ana and her team gathered 75 emerging leaders living in Portugal, aged 16 to 21 years old, in Lisbon for a five-day conference with multiple partners and sponsors, such as Empower Peace.

With a great passion for understanding complex challenges and generating impact, Ana graduated from Law School at the University of Minho in July 2022. Ana was a National Champion of the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, competing in the White & Case Jessup International Rounds. In that same year, in September, she started an LL.M. in International and European Law at NOVA Law School in Lisbon, having been awarded a merit scholarship.

Ana is currently an Innovation Analyst at Beta-i, an collaborative innovation consultancy with global reach based in Lisbon. This role combines with her desire to create and design innovative solutions for several businesses in an entrepreneurial environment.

Isabella Victoria Ross-Molnes, Women2Women 2022 Alumna, Norway

Isabella Victoria Ross-Molnes is a Women2Women 2022 Alumna. She is and has been involved in both local, national, and international projects relating to youth participation and politics. She is currently active in a youth council, involved in various local projects and working on her action plan to create a Women2Women in Norway. She is also running for a seat on the municipal council in the upcoming elections.

Isabella is currently in her last semester of high school, where she has studied different science subjects, as well as taken two classes at the University of Stavanger. After this summer, she aims to move away to study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Here she plans to explore some of her many interests by studying medical biochemistry and psychology.

As per day, Isabella is unsure of which careers she wishes to pursue. However, she hopes to further develop her leadership skills and use them to inspire others. She looks forward to continuing her journey in the Alumnae Program and Women2Women, and is excited to be a part of these amazing organizations.

Alexandra Wolf, Women2Women 2015 Alumna, Belgium

Alexandra is a Women2Women 2015 Alumna. Her first experience as an intern was at the 2015 Belgian conference and she has returned as an intern to all US editions since. Since September ‘22 Alexandra is involved in the Women2Women Alumnae program, which aims to strengthen the relations between Women2Women Alumnae from all over the world.

Alexandra has a masters degree in communication management from the University of Ghent, has worked as a marketing manager in the music industry and is currently working as an education and enablement manager in the fashion industry, where she is also an active member of the company’s women’s network. In the past she was part of the Flemish School Student Union, The European School Student Union and the Flemish Youth Council.

In the future Alexandra hopes to continue working with and connecting inspiring women in the corporate world as well as through Women2Women and the Women2Women Alumnae Program.

Imane Maloujahmoum, Women2Women 2015 Belgium Edition Alumna, Belgium

Imane was a delegate in the W2W Belgium 2015 Edition. The year after she went to Boston as an intern to get the full experience and benefit form everything this unique leadership program has to offer. Since September 2022, she is involved in the W2W Alumnae Program to build a solid network of Alumnae all over the world.

Imane is currently pursuing a specialized Master in European Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium focusing on economic law. In 2022, she graduated with a Masters of Law from the KU Leuven during which she participated in the London International Model United Nations conference to enhance her public speaking skills. Furthermore, she was an intern at the Belgian Public Prosecution office and has been giving Dutch language classes to children in Brussels.

In the future, Imane wishes to contribute in making the Alumnae Program even more successful and she is hoping to pursue a career in European Law in Brussels.

Lilli Feit, Women2Women 2017 Alumna, Germany

Lilli has been a delegate to Women2Women Boston in 2017 and the confidence gained during the program has impacted her ever since. In September 2022 Lilli joined the Women2Women Alumnae Program and has been engaged in the organization of our monthly events. As an intermediary between guest speakers and the Alumnae Team, Lilli is experiencing her involvement as an ongoing adventure, broadening her perspective through the prism of the Women2Women alumni community.

After her time in Boston, Lilli spent a year of volunteering in Israel, before moving to France for her undergraduate studies. She recently graduated from SciencesPo Paris, after spending her final year of university discovering Czech Republic and Ukraine. Lilli is currently working as an intern at the Berlin Representation of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). She is also engaged in the youth-led organization Coexister, promoting an interreligious dialogue and a volunteer at a local overnight shelter for women. Lilli is an active member of the youth movement of Germany’s social democratic party, currently supporting the electoral campaign for the Berlin city council.

In the future Lilli hopes to contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement by supporting an increased European coherency in development cooperation policy approaches. Furthermore, she wants to continue her involvement in local politics, and her support for parliamentary solutions to increasingly pressuring challenges both on a global and local level.