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Vital Voices Global Partnership

Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc., also known simply as Vital Voices, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C.

History

In 1997, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright established the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative) following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China "to promote the advancement of women as a U.S. foreign policy goal." The initiative organized conferences worldwide in partnership with the European Union, Inter-American Development Bank, Nordic Council of Ministers, United Nations, World Bank, and other governments. The success of this initiative led to the formation of the Vital Voices Global Partnership as a non-governmental organization in June 2000.[1]

Organization

Vital Voices is a client of Hardpin Media[2] and The Bridgespan Group.[3]

Personnel

Many members of Vital Voices' team are listed on its website.[4]

Name Position Notes
Alyse Nelson Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Vital Voices Democracy Initiative, President's Interagency Council on Women (PICW), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department for International Development (DFID), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), Chime for Change, Global Citizen
Donna Cochran McLarty Co-founder, Chair Emeritus and Board member University of Arkansas, McLarty Scholars, Sam M. Walton College of Business, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, AmericArtes, Kennedy Center Honors, Blair House, Meridian International Center, Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG), Religions for Peace, Wesley Theological Seminary, WETA, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Centers for Youth and Families, Washington National Cathedral
Kate James Board Chair Pearson, National Audubon Society, Unreasonable Group, Arabesque Partners, Prince's Trust, Worldreader, America's Promise, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Chartered Pakistan, GlaxoSmithKline
Huma Abedin Board member Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America, United States Department of State
Elizabeth Buchanan Board member Rokt, S4 Capital, Yahoo, Uber, Omnicom Group, whiteGREY
Ashley Davis Board member West Front Strategies, White House Office of Homeland Security, Turning Point Brands, National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), Office of the U.S. Speaker Program, Belizean Grove
Tashni-Ann Dubroy Board member Howard University, Shaw University, BASF, Tea and Honey Blends, Element Beauty Bar, Shaw University Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Nina Easton Board member SellersEaston Media, Journey to Lead, Fortune Most Powerful Women International, Fortune Global Forum, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Trilateral Commission
Nikki Eslami Board member New Theory Ventures, Bellami, GXVE Beauty, Wild Elements, Environmental Defense Fund
Amanda Gorman Board member National Youth Poet Laureate, New York Times, 826 National
Craig Johnstone Board member jSolutions, Manti Resources, United States Department of State, Boeing, Cabot Corporation, Cabot Plastics International, United States Chamber of Commerce
Gisel Kordestani Board member Leadership Now Project, Mercy Corps, Crowdpac, Google, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG)
Donna Langley Board member Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG), New Line Cinema, Global Ambassadors Program, Hollywood Reporter, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute
Geraldine Laybourne Board member 9 Story Media Group, Common Sense Growth, Katapult, Betaworks, Nickelodeon, Disney-ABC Cable Networks, Oxygen Media, DAY ONE Early Learning Community, MASS Design Group, Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet, Vassar College, JCPenney, Electronic Arts (EA), Symantec, Move, Insight Communications, KinderCare
Marlene Malek Board member Friends of Cancer Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (MCCC), National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB), Marymount University, Explore Children's Museum, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Ford's Theatre Society
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Board member Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT), Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC), Réseau des Populations Autochtones et Locales pour la Gestion des Ecosystèmes Forestiers d'Afrique Centrale (REPALEAC), Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP), United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Marc Pritchard Board member Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Sagra Maceira de Rosen Board member NAGA Group, SIO Global, Terra Firma Capital Partners, Amanda Wakeley, Reig Capital Group (RCG), JPMorgan Chase, Omni United, Monocle 24
Martine Rothblatt Board member United Therapeutics, Sirius XM
Deborah Rutter Board member John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, VSA, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Bozoma Saint John Board member Netflix, Endeavor, Uber, Apple Music, iTunes, PepsiCo
Zainab Salbi Board member Daughters for Earth, FindCenter, Women for Women International, The Commons Project
Megan Smith Board member shift7, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Google, Google.org, Women Techmakers, Solve for X, PlanetOut, General Magic, Apple, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2028 Summer Olympics, Think of Us, Malala Fund, United Nations Solutions Summit, Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK), World Economic Forum (WEF), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Global Tech Panel, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Roselyne Swig Board member Art in Embassies (AIE), Comcon International, The Swig Company, Roselyne S. Swig Artsource, San Francisco Partners Ending Domestic Abuse, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, NPR Foundation, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM), United Religions Initiative (URI), San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Public Libraries Commission
Jennifer Taylor Board member Citi, Bank of America, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Selina Tobaccowala Board member Openfit, Gixo, SurveyMonkey, Ticketmaster, Evite, Redfin
Rosita Van Coevorden Board member Scheie Eye Institute, University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology, Kindering
Diane von Furstenberg Board member Diller-von Furstenburg Family Foundation, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Kah Walla Board member Cameroon People's Party, STRATEGIES!
Sherrie Rollins Westin Board member Sesame Workshop, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA), United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), U.S. News & World Report, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), U.S.-Afghan Women's Council
Amira Yahyaoui Board member World Economic Forum, Forum of Young Global Leaders, Yale World Fellows, Al Bawsala, Sequoia Capital, Amnesty International, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Global Shapers Tunis
Liz Ramey Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator for Economic Empowerment[5] Indivisible, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Civil Service Agency, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Partners

Partners of Vital Voices include:[6]

  1. Our History. Vital Voices Global Partnership. Retrieved January 16, 2010, from http://archive.today/2014.01.16-060230/http://web.archive.org/web/20100124120629/vitalvoices.org/about-us/our-history ↩︎

  2. What We Do. Hardpin Media. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.11-000304/https://www.hardpinmedia.com/our-works ↩︎

  3. Our Clients. Bridgespan. Retrieved August 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220812141521/https://www.bridgespan.org/about-us/our-clients ↩︎

  4. Team. Vital Voices. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.11-222733/https://www.vitalvoices.org/about/team/%23 ↩︎

  5. Experience | Elizabeth M. Ramey. LinkedIn. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethmramey/details/experience/ ↩︎

  6. Partners. Vital Voices. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.11-221450/https://www.vitalvoices.org/about/partners/ ↩︎