With a heavy heart, we announce the closing of Women in the World. We’ve concluded it’s not possible to continue in the post-COVID environment, but remain immensely proud of all we accomplished and grateful for your decade of support.
Dear friends, participants, and supporters,
All of you have played such an important part through the past ten years of enthralling storytelling and breaking open critical gender issues. Women in the World grew into a powerful global community of activists, business, and political leaders, artists, writers, journalists, and thought leaders. The annual summit combined journalistic discovery with theatrical production values. We deployed powerful videos, changes of pace, and pointed elements of performance that always illuminated a story and an issue – the Cambodian dancer rescued while foraging at a dump near Phnom Penh, the American ballerina adopted from a war orphanage in Sierra Leone, and the slam poet who grew up homeless in California.
It has also been our honor to have brought to our stage some of the most consequential women in business, non-profits, and philanthropy: Melinda Gates, Laurene Powell Jobs, Arianna Huffington, Mellody Hobson, Zhang Xin, Anne Finucane, Indra Nooyi, Dambisa Moyo, Sallie Krawcheck, Meredith Levien, Padmasree Warrior, Amy Pascal, Nina Shaw, Susan Wojcicki, Martine Rothblatt, Laura Wasser, Dina Powell, Roz Brewer, Cheryl Boone Isaacs,Alyse Nelson, Ai-jen Poo, Minyon Moore, Ann Tisch, Edna Adan, Saru...
War correspondents, photographers, documentarians, top journalists and editors shared personal stories about the danger of frontline reporting as well as the perils of speaking truth to power: India’s Barkha Dutt and Shoma Chaudhury, Mexico’s Lydia Cacho, Iran’s Masih Alinejad, America’s Jill Abramson, Lynsey Addario, Eliza Griswold, Nima Elbagir, Clarissa Ward, Asra Nomani, Janine di Giovanni, Tania Rashid, Louise Roug, and Maggie Haberman, Saudi documentarian Safa Al Ahmad, Turkey’s Ece...
And in the U.S., firebrands Rebecca Heller and Layli Miller-Muro still wage endless legal battles for those seeking asylum and for America’s most vulnerable immigrants.
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