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During her 17-year tenure in Congress, Jane Lakes Harman was a leading voice on national security, serving on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees and helping to craft important legislation in the fight against terrorism.

Recently-appointed Pakistani Ambassador to the United States and a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Sherry Rehman is an advocate for women’s rights, free speech, media independence, and repeal of harsh blasphemy laws. She lives under constant threat of death and, despite self-imposed house arrest, continues to speak out. A veteran journalist who was

Maya Ajmera founded the Global Fund for Children (GFC) in 1994 after earning a Master of Public Policy degree from the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. GFC make small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. Since its founding, GFC has awarded more

Under Secretary of State and Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs on August 10, 2009. She oversees and coordinates U.S. foreign relations on a variety of global issues, including democracy, human rights, and labor; environment, oceans, health and science; population, refugees, and

An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). In 1998, Wilson founded The White

Atifete Jahjaga was Deputy General Director of the Police of Kosovo from February 2009 until her election as President of the Republic of Kosovo, on April 7, 2011.