Category: International

PRISCILLA ANANY, A Ghanian-American filmmaker, was part of this week’s “Women Power in Film World and Film Content” panel at the Bengaluru International Film Festival, where her movie, Children of the Mountain was shown.

CO-FOUNDER OF THE Global Good Fund, Carrie Rich, received the Zhi-Xing China Eisenhower Fellowship, a world class program with “demonstrated expertise in facilitating a global network of talented leaders to achieve meaningful economic and…

THE NEW YORK Times published the story of a Canadian family who took in a Syrian refugee family. Photos for “What Does It Mean to Help One Family?” were shot by our former guest photojournalist Nicole Tung. Click…

Barb Collins and Marsha Wallace, two amazing, inspirational and committed women. They are the co-founders of Dining for Women, the largest educational giving circle that connects people in the West with projects supporting women and girls living in extreme poverty in the developing world. Thanks to their tireless efforts and drive to make the world a better place, Dining for Women has 8,000 grassroots members in just about every state and 6 countries, who meet in home and community-based chapters. Members donate what they would have spent dining out. Since it's founding in 2003, DFW has raised more than 5 million dollars. Marsha and Barb will 'blow you away!'

What's it like working as a foreign correspondent? You're about to find out. Alexis Okeowo spent a good part of her career in Nigeria, Uganda and Mexico freelancing for various publications/organizations, including the New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times and the international news agency, Agence France-Press. Alexis, who joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015, is working on a book: A Moonless, Starless Sky: Womoen and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa. She shares the challenges and rewards of global reporting as a woman in what's typically thought of as a man's world.