Hey Changemaker!: Recent Episodes

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Hey Changemaker! In this podcast, Julia Wiklander, Founder of Girls’ Globe, speaks with activists, advocates, founders, entrepreneurs, researchers and other changemakers - on the issues they care about and their journeys to doing something about it. Learn how to take inspired action and build movements of change. We’re here for uplifting conversations to build solidarity and hope - and to inspire you to use your gifts, passions, frustrations and uniqueness to follow your own purpose as a changemaker. The Hey Changemaker! podcast aims to inspire positive change for gender equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability around the world.

Aluel Atem is a feminist peacebuilder and strategic advisor with over a decade of experience advancing gender equality, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation in complex humanitarian and post-conflict settings.

She has led multi-stakeholder initiatives across Africa, partnering with governments, civil society, multilateral agencies, and grassroots movements to deliver systemic, justice-centered change. Aluel has co-founded two feminist organizations in South Sudan, facilitated over 80 trainings across continents, and shaped national and international policy through high-level advocacy.

In this episode, Aluel and Julia speak about resilience and working for change in the midst of war, conflict and displacement. Aluel tells stories from her own life and we speak about Ma'Mara Sakit Village, a feminist community she is part of building in South Sudan.

Julia and Aluel discuss global power dynamics and resilience in the face of backlash to gender equality, human rights and the climate. This an honest conversation in a moment with a lot of hurt.

Learn more: * Ma'Mara Sakit Village – https://mamarasakitvillage.org/

Purity Kemei is a passionate communication for development specialist with over 6 years in the development sector. Purity is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Communication for Development at the United States International University-Africa and holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.

For over 4 years now, Purity has served at AMPLIFY Girls as a communications officer, applying her expertise in strategic communications and digital storytelling to amplify the voices, work, and impact of community-driven organizations developing girls' agency in communities across Africa. Purity is passionate about storytelling for social change and leveraging it to communicate the need for empowerment among adolescent girls and young women while highlighting the inequalities they face in rural and marginalized communities in Africa.

In this episode, Julia and Purity speak about the new Adolescent Girls Agency Portal - a groundbreaking tool that gives community and civil society organizations the opportunity to measure the impact of their programs. The launch of the tool has already reached hundreds of organizations, and is available online.

Purity also talks about her own agency and journey towards working with AMPLIFY Girls.

Learn more about the Adolescent Girls Agency Portal here: https://girlsagencyportal.org/

Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy. She's the founder of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs and creatives. And she’s the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients.

Amelia’s work and podcast has been a help and an inspiration for Julia, who made her own decision to leave social media earlier this year.

In this episode, Amelia Hruby shares her own story of wanting to drive change, challenging structures of power and why she took the decision to leave social media. Julia and Amelia discuss big tech, surveillance capitalism and how to navigate the digital world as a changemaker, who cares deeply about people and planet. They talk about shadowbans and persecution of human rights defenders, and how to organize off of social media.

Amelia leaves us with great advice and support and encourages us to make conscious decisions about how we use digital tools.

Learn more: * Find Amelia Hruby's podcast, free toolkit and more resources at offthegrid.fun.

Julia Wiklander is the host of Hey Changemaker!, the founder of the global feminist media platform, Girls’ Globe, and a communications strategist for changemakers and organizations. * Subscribe to her emails with support here: juliawiklander.com/notes * Find Julia's free resources on strategic communications and storytelling here: juliawiklander.com/free

Francisca Sequeira is the the founder and president of SOMA (Sufers Proud of African Women), the first surf therapy organization in Africa dedicated exclusively to girls.

Francisca, from Portugal, embarked on a new journey in 2020 during the pandemic. She was experiencing anxiety and panic attacks after losing her job as a flight attendant, and discovered surf therapy—a combination of surfing, mental well-being, and empowerment.

What started as a solo trip of self-discovery turned into a larger movement to support women and girls in the islands of São Tomé and Principe.

SOMA's mission is to reduce the social exclusion of young women in Africa by strengthening their physical and mental well-being and promoting gender equity through surf therapy. The organization’s vision is to create the next generation of independent and self-sustainable women, surfing infinite waves of well-being, opportunities, and equity across Africa.

Over the past four years, SOMA has impacted more than 100 young women, empowering them through surf therapy, academic support, and psychosocial development. With models adaptable to local conditions, SOMA has been expanding into new communities, creating job opportunities and capacity building for local women.

In this episode, Francisca Sequeira shares her story and the remarkable work that SOMA does, grounded in the community it serves. Julia and Francisca talks about social entrepreneurship, creativity and hope - and about what SOMA means for the women, girls and families in São Tomé and Principe.

Learn more: * www.somasurf.org * @somasurf

Julia Wiklander is the host of Hey Changemaker!, the founder of the global feminist media platform, Girls’ Globe, and a communications strategist for changemakers and organizations. * Subscribe to her emails with support here: juliawiklander.com/notes * Find her free resources on strategic communications and storytelling here: juliawiklander.com/free

Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE is the Chief Midwife of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).

Jacqueline has a tremendous career in midwifery clinical practice and leadership. Prior to joining ICM, Jacqueline served as the first Chief Midwifery Officer for the NHS in England and was one of two National Maternity Safety Champions appointed by the Department for Health and Social Care. She was recognised as one of the Health Service Journal’s most influential people in health in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024, she was also celebrated as one of the NHS’s 75 most significant nurses and midwives in 2023 and is included in the Nursing Times’ Leaders 2015 list for pioneering and inspirational professionals.

She is a registered nurse and midwife and holds honorary doctorates from Worcester and Winchester Universities in the UK and a visiting Professorship in Midwifery at Kings College London and London South Bank University. She chairs the maternity advisory group for the Health and Race Observatory in England, serves on the Women of the Year management committee, acts as Midwifery Ambassador for the ‘Saying Goodbye’ charity, and holds key roles as Patron for Baby Lifeline and the Caribbean & African Health Network UK.

In this episode, Jacqueline shares some incredible stories from her career in midwifery, including leading national midwifery initiatives during COVID. Julia and Jacqueline talk about the needs of midwives and the status of maternal health worldwide. They discuss inequality and inequity of care and outcomes for women and mothers between regions and within countries - and the need for data in combination with the stories of women’s lived realities. Jacqueline speaks about her work with ICM and the importance of midwifery leadership through the crises we are witnessing in the world today.

Learn more: * International Confederation of Midwives

Julia Wiklander is the host of Hey Changemaker!, the founder of the global feminist media platform, Girls’ Globe, and a communications strategist for changemakers and organizations. * Subscribe to her emails with support here: juliawiklander.com/notes * Get the free Storytelling Guide here: juliawiklander.com/25

Neha Mankani is a community midwife and global health practitioner from Pakistan with a strong focus on reproductive health and rights in crisis situations, emergency response and climate-affected communities.

Neha is the Humanitarian and Climate Engagement Advisor at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the founder of the Mama Baby Fund; a financial emergency fund for maternal and neonatal healthcare in Pakistan. She has extensive experience in SRHR and maternal and neonatal health clinical practice, programming, and midwifery advocacy both at the local and global levels.

In this episode, Neha shares stories from her work with the coastal communities outside of Karachi, Pakistan and why she stared Mama Baby Fund. As a midwife with the ICM, Julia and Neha talk about how to build resilience in communities affected by the climate crisis and the critical role that midwives have.

Julia’s first job after university was to support emergency maternal health response after the floods in Pakistan in 2010, and as a child she lived a while in Lahore, so this was an episode of particular connection for her.

Learn more:

Mama Baby Fund website and Instagram
International Confederation of Midwives website and Instagram

Other links mentioned in the episode:

Subscribe to Julia's email notes at juliawiklander.com/notes

Nisha Pahuja is the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind the film To Kill a Tiger.Her latest film, TO KILL A TIGER, had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Since then, it’s garnered 29 awards including the Best Documentary Feature, Palm Springs International Film Festival, three Canadian Screen awards and the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2023. The film is available on Netflix, and is such a beautiful and vulnerable documentary feature.

"To Kill a Tiger” is a story about Ranjit, a farmer in Jharkhand, who takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, Kiran, the survivor of sexual assault. It is a story of resilience, hope, bravery and a father’s unwavering love for his daughter.

For Nisha, the film grew out of a long career of addressing various human rights issues, notably violence against women in India. In 2015, she won the Amnesty International media award for Canadian journalism after making a short film about the Delhi bus gang rape for Global News. Her previous films have also won several awards from Tribeca Film Festival and many many more - and in 2024, Pahuja was invited to be a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In this episode, Julia speaks with Nisha about To Kill a Tiger and the global #StandWithHer campaign. Nisha shares her own story and journey of determination and resilience as a filmmaker and gives us insight into the process of making this film. She also shares what's come next for Kiran and Ranjit.

Learn more:

To Kill A Tiger: https://tokillatigerfilm.com/
The #StandWithHer Campaign: https://tokillatigerfilm.com/campaign/
The film on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81766865

Julia Wiklander is the host of Hey Changemaker!, the founder of the global feminist media platform, Girls' Globe, and a communications strategist for changemakers and organizations.

Subscribe to her emails with support here: https://juliawiklander.com/notes
Get the free Storytelling Guide here: https://juliawiklander.com/25

In this episode, Julia Wiklander shares the 21 reasons why she is leaving social media. From surveillance capitalism to her creative process - she speaks about all the issues that she's had with these platforms and what made her make the decision to leave.

After years of being in a bad relationship with social media, Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls' Globe, has decided that she's leaving. For some, this may be an easy decision, but as someone working with digital communications and media, it’s not as straightforward. Social media has been an important part of her work with digital commmunications for over a decade.

It’s through social media that Julia was able to begin building Girls’ Globe – making connections that wouldn’t have been possible without it. And she has tried to please the algorithm, with everything from cringey lipsync videos to the 5-second Reels. Still, over the past 8 years, social media has become a bigger headache than it’s provided value in her life and work.

You can also read through her reasons and dive deeper into the links and resources she talks about here.

Links mentioned in the episode:

juliawiklander.com/blog
juliawiklander.com/notes

What are the impacts of the Trump administration's attack on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion)? And can consumers really make a difference through boycotts? Is DEI the new woke? Is solidarity political? These are just some of the questions that are discussed in this episode of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast.

Asad Dhunna is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Unmistakables, an award-winning and B Corp certified consultancy that builds cultural confidence and relevance for some of the world’s most well known brands and businesses.Asad and Julia speak about diversity, equity and inclusion and its status and role in 2025. They discuss what Trump's attack on DEI means for organizations, companies and individuals - not only in the US, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. Asad shares how The Unmistakables do their work and how their Inside Out Inclusion model works. Asad shares his insights and opinions on the boycott and on citizens ability to keep pushing for policies that are grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion.

This episode also digs into the language we use when talking about diversity, equity and inclusion. Asad and Julia discuss things like “economic growth” as an indicator for success, and about the connotations of the word "solidarity".

Asad Dhunna shares his own story that brought him to working with DEI and founding The Unmistakables.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Unmistakables: https://www.theunmistakables.com/
The Hope Gap: https://www.theunmistakables.com/the-hope-gap
Diversity and Confusion: https://www.theunmistakables.com/diversity-and-confusion-2023

In this episode, Julia Wiklander walks you through all the things she is committing to this year to support changemakers.

With over a decade of experience working with digital communications and strategic storytelling, Julia is offering personalized and group support to activists, advocates, entrepreneurs, communicators and teams.

Coaching & workshops
Online course: Strategic Storytelling for Changemakers
E-book: Big Change Starts with Small Stories
Free Resources: Workshops, webinars, guides and emails
Subscribe to Julia's weekly email notes here.

Julia is also dedicated to amplify changemakers through the growing Girls' Globe community. The global feminist media platform reaches hundreds and thousands of readers from every single country of the world.

In these times, when big tech is increasingly hostile environments, independent platforms like Girls' Globe matter more than ever. Learn more about our membership opportunities here.

As the host of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast, Julia is dedicated to continue to bring you inspiring conversations and informative episodes to guide you to make a greater impact with your work, build resilience and keep showing up for the impact you want to create in the world.

Giovanna Lauro is the Deputy CEO of Equimundo. She has over two decades of experience working to advance gender equality and prevent gender-based violence. Her work centers on reshaping gender norms, particularly by challenging harmful notions of masculinity.

Before joining Equimundo, Giovanna served as Associate Director of the Women and Population Programme at the United Nations Foundation, where she coordinated efforts and investments to advance the rights of adolescent girls worldwide. Her career also includes research on diversity, race, and ethnicity at the London School of Economics, alongside a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Oxford. At Oxford, she explored policies aimed at the prevention of harmful traditional practices across several European countries.

In this episode, Giovanna shares her own journey as a feminist activist, coming from quite a conservative and patriarchal society in Italy. Julia speaks to her about how much the world has changed since she began her career and about the important work of reframing masculinity and gender norms.

Giovanna shares her insights into what a Trump Presidency will mean for gender equality and we discuss the impact on young men. We talk about big tech and the macho-broligarchs - and what we can all do to help shift the narratives around masculinity.

Giovanna shares her advice for young activists and seasoned ones too.

This is an episode to help make sense of what we're witnessing in the world today, and the power structures at play.

Learn more about Equimundo here.

Julia mentions free resources on digital communications and strategic storytelling in the episode. Get them here.

Episode 66. Julia Wiklander dives into the struggle of maintaining confidence in uncertain times - something she has been working on herself. With global setbacks in gender equality, human rights, and activism, many changemakers feel drained and question their impact.

Julia shares her personal experiences and practical ways to bounce back when self-doubt creeps in. Prioritize yourself. Build community, celebrate small wins, and do what fuels you.

Confidence will take hits, and resilience is necessary if we want to build a better world.

At the very beginning of social media, we saw that it could be used for so much good - create connections between people, challenge hierarchies and structures of power. However, we now know that social media, owned by tech billionaires, puts profit over people and planet every day. So, how do we make an impact in this difficult online landscape?

In this episode, Julia Wiklander speaks about how to navigate online communications in 2025. She shares the five IN's and the five OUT's of digital communications for changemakers this year. Julia is the founder of Girls' Globe, and has worked in the intersection of digital media and social impact for the past 13 years. She's a tech enthusiast, entrepreneur, activist and empath - and encourages strategy and care for your own time and energy as you navigate your communications priorities.

She will also be hosting a free webinar on how to navigate digital communications in 2025 as a changemaker - you can sign up here.

Episode 64. The Hey Changemaker! Podcast is back!

So far, the podcast has reached listeners in over 70 countries, with more than 50 guests speaking on a range of issues related to human rights, equality, politics, peace and justice.

In this episode Julia talks about:

navigating the heavy energy of this world and how she wants to support changemakers in this challenging time
why she's "relaunching" the podcast and how she's planning to be more
What her hopes are for this podcast and how you can be a part of it
Why stories will continue to be one of the most powerful tools we have for change - especially with the rise of AI
How she's going from doing it yourself to doing it together this year

The Hey Changemaker! Podcast is for activists, advocates, entrepreneurs, communicators and people who care deeply about our shared world. It will continue to be a space to share stories, insights, tools and inspiration.

Contribute with your comments or guest suggestions here: juliawiklander.com/podcast

Subscribe to Julia's emails here: juliawiklander.com/notes

This is a different episode of the podcast with host Julia Wiklander speaking about the global feminist solidarity movement, building resilience in the midst of deep pain, and why she started the podcast.

This is an episode to remind us of why we’re doing this work.

She talks about what feminist solidarity really means - and what inspired her to start Girls’ Globe to amplify the voices of so many people who go unrecognized or unheard.

Julia encourages us that our voices matter and how important it is to reflect on our values and to let them lead in all aspects of our work - including our communications. Her new course Strategic Storytelling for Changemakers is an opportunity to create a powerful communications strategy that is aligned with our values and purpose, defined by our powerful stories and the people we want to reach.

Beth Woroniuk is currently a Senior Fellow with the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. Until earlier this year, she was the Vice-President, Policy at the Equality Fund.

Beth has worked to advance gender justice and feminist approaches to policymaking for over 35 years. She has advised and worked with bilateral aid agencies, women’s funds, UN entities, international NGOs and feminist organizations, strengthening their work on gender equality and women’s rights in numerous contexts and countries.

Beth has developed analytical tools, supported policy development, carried out research, blogged, conducted evaluations, organized, lobbied and testified before the Canadian Parliament. She is particularly interested in analyzing resource investments in gender equality and feminist movements, feminist foreign policies and women, peace and security.

In this episode Beth shares her own stories, perspectives and reasons for hope.

Julia and Beth talk about resilience as feminist changemakers and the multiple crises that we’re facing in the world. Beth gives us insights into the challenges, and the wins that we’re seeing as a global feminist movement. She shares amazing advice for young women who are moving into the feminist advocacy space today.

Hassina Sherjan is the Founder and CEO of Aid Afghanistan For Education. She has over 30 years of experience in education, business, communication, and journalism.

Hassina is a co-author of “Toughing It Out in Afghanistan,” published in February 2011, and has published various op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, and more. She is a member of the Board of Advisors at Samuel Hall, and a Global Ambassador for The International Alliance for Women (TIAW). She is also a 2023 GlobalGiving Community Voices fellow.

In this conversation, Hassina Sherjan shares her own story of coming back to Afghanistan 19 years after leaving the country at the age of 19.

Julia and Hassina talk about her work to strengthen efforts for education and girls’ education in particular, throughout the many years she was active working in Afghanistan.

Hassina speaks about the shock and aftermath of the Taliban takeover in 2021 and how her work for education in Afghanistan continues in a different form.

Elizabeth Dartnall is the Executive Director of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). She has 25+ years of expertise in health systems, mental health, and addressing violence against women and children.

Liz is an experienced global health specialist. Her career encompasses roles in both government and research in a range of countries across the world. Since 2006, she has overseen the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and successfully transitioned it into an independent NGO with the backing of multiple partners. Committed to feminist, ethical, and equitable approaches, Liz continues to lead research and policy initiatives that play a key role in building a violence-free world for women.

Liz sits on a number of international advisory groups, including the Global Women’s Institute leadership council, and serves on the board of the MenEngage Alliance. She is committed to redressing the deep inequity in the investment in research on violence against women and violence and children between the high income and low and middle income countries (LMICs) and supporting researchers and practitioners in LMICs to undertake priority driven, impactful, rigorous, feminist, and ethical research.

In this conversation Liz shares her personal story of childhood experiences that what brought her to this work working with addressing violence against women and children.

We talk about funding for the gender equality and women’s rights movement and about collective care. Liz talks about the vicarious trauma that people working in this field experience and how SVRI is implementing collective care in all parts of their work.

Learn more about SVRI and the SVRI Forum.

Laura Somoggi, Co-CEO at Womanity, is an international development expert with a focus on gender equity, social impact, and trust-based philanthropy. A feminist and strong advocate for devolution of power through equitable partnerships, she has overseen programmes with a presence in 15 countries. Coming from a colonised country and a family of refugees, the decolonisation of knowledge and development is especially personal to her.

Laura joined Womanity in 2017 to lead their efforts to prevent violence against women and girls. Her diverse career includes a decade in journalism in Brazil and another decade managing global partnerships in the corporate sector with international NGOs and UN agencies. Laura also serves on the board of Right to Be (formerly Hollaback!).

In this episode, Julia and Laura speak about hope and resilience in the face of backlash, the status of gender equality around the world and about decolonizing development. Laura shares her own stories - including about her career move - and talks about the work of Womanity at large and in Afghanistan specifically.

Learn more about Womanity here.

Amé Atsu David is the Regional Co-Director for Africa at the Global Fund for Children.

Global Fund for Children partners with local organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and advance their rights.Amé is a human rights activist and an advocate for adolescent girls. She joins us in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio and shares her call to action and her thoughts on feminist solidarity.

Global Fund for Children is a member of Girls' Globe, read more about their work here.

Neha Gurung is a human rights lawyer from Nepal.

Neha is the Co-founder and Head of Legal Aid and Advocacy at the Citizenship Affected People's Network, Nepal. She is also currently the Co-Lead at the Global Movement Against Statelessness.

In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Neha shares parts of her story. She speaks about how she was affected by statelessness and her calls to action for others. Neha shares what feminist solidarity looks like to her.

Lopa Banerjee is the Director at the Civil Society Division at UN Women.

In this episode Lopa Banerjee speaks with Felogene Anumo in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio. They speak about civil society engagement, the Generation Equality Forum and anti-rights movements. Lopa shares what brings her hope - the leadership of young feminists around the world - and what feminist solidarity means to her.

Jona Turalde is the Community, Operations, and Resource Mobilization Lead of Transform Education, the young feminist coalition hosted by UN Girls Education Initiative.

She's a young feminist activist from the Philippines, who has worked in key leadership positions on various governing boards and advisory roles of international development organizations and feminist movements including SheDecides, International Planned Parenthood Federation, CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, and FRIDA, the Young Feminist Fund.

In this episode, Felogene Anumo speaks with Jona Turalde about what inspired her to start working with sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Philippines, her activism, calls to action and what solidarity means.

Oyidiya Oji is the Policy and Advocacy Advisor for Digital Rights at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). She focuses on advocacy in regards to AI and related digital rights portfolios. She defends a transversal and sustainable relationship with EU institutions with a racial equality lens. Previously, she researched and mapped projects of resistance and reappropriation of technology, with a special focus on AI.

In this episode Oyidiay Oji and Julia Wiklander speak about the linkages between AI, digital rights and racism - and it’s links to the Olympics in Paris.Oyidiya Oji shares a personal story of growing up and her journey into working in the anti-racism space and her interest in digital rights. Oyidiya highlights the importance of understanding the impact of technology on marginalized communities and the need for a human rights approach in safeguarding digital rights. She talks about the challenges in implementing legislation and the role of civil society in shaping policies.

Julia and Oyidiya speak about the current situation in Paris, and what happened in Rio during the Olympics there. Oyidiya emphasizes the need for global solidarity in addressing digital rights issues and shares practical tips for being vigilant about technology use.

Learn more about the European Network Against Racism here: https://www.enar-eu.org/

Nesmah Mansoor is a Women's Peace and Security expert and a Co-founder of the Peace Track Initiative, currently serving as their Policy and Communication Senior Officer. She specializes in the intersection of peacebuilding and climate justice and is Peace Track Initiative’s focal point for Feminist Climate Justice issues. Nesmah is also pursuing a master's degree in International Relations at Inalco, Paris, with a focus on Security Studies.

In this episode Nesmah and I speak about Yemen. She shares her journey as a changemaker, from challenging gender norms as a child to using her voice to raise awareness about the situation in Yemen. She gives us a very clear and comprehensive overview of the complex history of Yemen, including the civil war and the impact on the people, particularly the internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Nesmah emphasizes the dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the challenges faced by IDPs, including lack of access to clean water and sanitation.

We talk about the Houthis involvement in the issue of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, through their attacks on ships in the Red Sea. She addresses the misconception that the Houthi rebels are heroes, highlighting their primary role in the conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and currently continue to violate human rights.

"Militarization is the elephant in the room," Nesmah says as we discuss the interconnectedness of peace, climate change, and justice movements. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the root causes of conflicts and the impact of militarization on both peace and the environment. Nesmah also highlights the resilience and activism of women in Yemen and their role in peacebuilding.

Deepti Mathew is the Chief Executive Officer at Street Business School.

Deepti has over 25 years of experience leading complex, global projects as a strategy and transformation consultant with a range of organizations. She grew up in India, Tanzania and Cameroon, and is committed to development and improving livelihoods for the world’s most vulnerable.

Street Business School empowers women to become thriving entrepreneurs, lifting themselves and their families to a more vibrant future.

Deepti speaks with Felogene Anumo about Street Business School's offerings and what feminist solidarity looks like.

This short episode was recorded in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio at the Women Deliver 2023 conference.

Françoise Moudouthe is a Pan-African Feminist and a supporter of feminist movements. She is currently the CEO of the African Women's Development Fund.

African Women's Development Fund is a feminist fund that resources, supports and nurtures African women’s rights organisations and feminist movements to sustain themselves.

In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Françoise speaks about feminism and feminist language. She also shares her calls to action and what feminist solidarity means to her.

Magda-Sarah Boulabiza is the policy and advocacy advisor for climate and economic justice at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).

Magda has experience working with migration and asylum law in France and in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to diversity and inclusion of minority groups in the workplace. Magda has a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Public Affairs.

In this episode Magda speaks with Julia Wiklander about the linkages between racial, climate and economic justice. "The values of democracy and human rights in Europe are only a facade." - Magda-Sarah Boulabiza

Magda shares her journey as a changemaker, starting with her experience of witnessing police violence at a young age. She discusses the interlinkages between climate and racial justice, highlighting how racialized communities are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis.

Magda also speaks about the hypocrisy of Europe in terms of repressive policies and the need for reparations for historical harms. She talks about Europe's history of colonialism and racism that has led to a racial wealth gap and ongoing discrimination. Magda gives current examples that show the effects and harms of the ongoing racism and lack of acknowledging responsibility for Europe’s colonial history.

Adèle Kirsten has been a non-violent, social justice activist for almost 40 years in South Africa, and is the Director of Gun Free South Africa, of which she was a founding member.

Adèle became active in the anti-apartheid movement in the late 70’s as a result of her opposition to the injustices of the apartheid system, the growing militarisation of the society, and her support for those who refused to serve in the apartheid army.

As a founding member of Gun Free South Africa (GFSA), Adèle was responsible for helping build the organisation into a national NGO, which together with the Gun Control Alliance, played an important role in advocating for stricter gun laws in South Africa. In November 2000, the Firearms Control Act was passed. Adèle was named the South African Woman of the Year in 2000 under the media and communications category.

In 2008, Adèle published a book, A Nation without Guns? The Story of Gun Free South Africa.
She has been on several advisory boards, notably the UK Department for International Development Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative as well as the OECD Advisory panel on armed violence reduction. Adèle joined the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation as its Director in 2008 until end 2010.

In this episode, Adèle shares how she got involved in the anti-apartheid movement as a student in South Africa. We talk about the linkages with the student movement today. She shares several stories from her work with Gun Free South Africa. One is the current - almost unbelievable - class-action lawsuit taking place in South Africa. The case includes over 2,000 guns that were stolen from police stores by a senior police officer, Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, and distributed to criminals between 2007 and 2015. These guns have been linked to more than 1000 murders in the Western Cape and 187 children between the ages of one and 17 years old were shot with Prinsloo Guns, 67 of whom were killed.

Adèle and Julia talk about gun violence, long-term activism and about solidarity and hope.

"If we aren't thinking structurally and systemically then it's charity. And charity has its place. But if you're an activist, you're about making change... and you have to find it within you to see the links between the small change, the mobilization and the structural systemic change." - Adèle Kirsten on the Hey Changemaker! Podcast.

Learn more about what's talked about in the podcast* Gun Free South Africa * Prinsloo Guns Class Action * Bulletproof Park

The Hey Changemaker! Podcast is hope and solidarity delivered to you through personal conversations with changemakers. Listen to more episodes, subscribe, nominate a guest and leave a voice message for the podcast here.

Chiara Martinelli is the Director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe.

CAN Europe is Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. With over 200 member organisations active in 40 European countries, representing over 1,700 NGOs and more than 40 million citizens, CAN Europe promotes sustainable climate, energy and development policies across Europe. CAN Europe is the regional node of the global alliance CAN International.

In this episode, Julia Wiklander speaks with Chiara about the upcoming EU Elections and what they mean for European Climate Action, what’s at stake and what brings her hope. Chiara also clarifies some of the EU processes, the European Green Deal and the confusion of an industrial deal and a New Green Deal.

Learn more from CAN Europe's work on the European Elections

Manifesto: https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2023/10/CAN-Europe-Manifesto-for-a-Fossil-Free-Socially-Just-and-Climate-Neutral-Union.pdf
Scoreboard https://caneurope.org/eu-parliament-scoreboard-2024/

Students across Western nations are taking to the streets and to their universities to demand them to end their complicity in the crimes of Israel and the ongoing genocide. Students are making noise and making waves of change. The student protests that started in the US, have spread across the country and across Europe.

These students have been called anti-semites in the media. They have been called terrorists. The peaceful protests and encampments have been threatened by governments and police. Students are risking their degrees, their scholarships, their privileges, their safety and futures for all the students in Gaza that have nowhere to go.

The student movement is an important one. It is showing us the truth of the reality we live in - and the complicity of governments and institutions that are meant to uphold free speech, education and human rights.

So, I asked students to share their stories and their perspectives. Why are they joining encampments? What are they demanding? What do they hope for?

Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury. It leaves a woman incontinent, humiliated, and—all too often—shunned by her community. Surgery is the only cure.

Habiba C. Mohamed, Regional Director of Programs in Africa at Fistula Foundation.

Bwalya Magawa Chomba is the Program Director for Zambia at Fistula Foundation.

In this episode they each share a story of a girl and woman with fistula that has affected their lives and careers. They also share an important call to action for us all to get engaged to end obstetric fistula.

Fistula Foundation is a member of Girls' Globe, you can read their stories here.

Learn more about the Girls' Globe memberships and apply here.

Emmanuel Achiri is the Policy and Advocacy Officer at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) - an expert on migration, policing and security. He holds a doctorate in International Relations with a focus on international law and forced migration.

"Europe fails to acknowledge its history. Europe fails to acknowledge that one of the reasons why we have a lot of instability in the global majority...is because of Europe." - Emmanuel Achiri

This conversation with Emmanuel Achiri focuses on the EU Migration Pact and Europe’s identity crisis.

Emmanuel discusses the contradictions within the Migration Pact, which claims to address structural racism while legitimizing racial profiling and criminalization of migrants. He highlights the crisis of European identity and the failure to acknowledge Europe's historical role in creating instability in other parts of the world.

Emmanuel emphasizes the need for a transformational approach to justice that integrates reparatory justice and addresses issues such as migration and climate change.

The conversation explores the need for a transformational approach to social justice and migration in Europe. It highlights the shortcomings of the EU elections in addressing these issues and the importance of voting for human rights.

The discussion also touches on the erosion of fundamental rights and the rise of anti-rights movements in Europe. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of struggles and the need for global mobilization and hope.

"When Europeans ignore the destruction of fundamental human rights principles, eventually this would move from just migrants to the rest of Europe."

➡️ The European Network Against Racism is asking MEPs to sign the manifesto: A Europe for All.

➡️ Ask your candidates for the European Parliament to pledge here: #EuropeForAll: Dear EU Election Candidates, pledge to support racial justice! - European Network Against Racism (enar-eu.org)

In The Deep End

This episode is a part of a new series of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast called In The Deep End.

In this series, Julia Wiklander speaks with experts who will help us understand the world, its systemic issues, and unveil the truth about what equality, rights and justice REALLY mean.

2024 is the year when half of the world’s population will elect their future. More voters than ever have this opportunity. Countries like India, Syria and South Africa - as well as the UK, US and EU - will be going to the polls. Some countries have fair and equal elections, others are postponed because of war and other countries’ outcomes can probably be guessed in advance. This is a major election year and results can have an impact on the world’s future for many years to come.

Free, fair and democratic elections are an important way for us to create change in our communities in the world.

The global minority, also known as the global north, has witnessed a surge of right-wing, anti-rights politics during the past decade. It also holds the majority of the world’s financial wealth, while continuing to exploit other countries in the world through capitalist and colonial systems that let them do so with impunity. The global north are also some of the greatest polluters in the world.

In The Deep End episodes will focus on the change and RECKONING that is necessary in the EU, UK and the US - all of which have elections this year.

Sharon Kathryn D’Agostino is a passionate advocate for the empowerment of women and girls, and for the human rights of all. Sharon founded the story-sharing platform, SayItForward.org, and she hosts monthly Women’s Circles online. She believes in the power of stories to spark our compassion for ourselves and for others, and to recognize that we are all connected.

In this episode, Julia and Sharon discuss the virtual Women's Circles that Sharon hosts and the importance of self-exploration and community. Julia shares her experiences of participating in the circles and Sharon speaks about unfiltered writing and her choice of writing prompts. She also provides a background to the Women's Circles and what they mean to her as well.

This conversation is an invitation for any woman to join the monthly Women's Circles that Sharon hosts.

Find out more and connect with Sharon at:

AwakeningYourTrueSelf.com
SayItForward.org
@SharonDAgostino, @SayItForwardNow and @AwakeningTrue on Twitter

"I strongly feel that the world is like a puzzle. One piece of the puzzle is not important than another."

Mwanahamisi “Mishy” Singano talks about WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and what feminist solidarity means to her.

Mishy is the Senior Global Policy Lead at WEDO and an African feminist passionate about fighting structural and intersecting inequalities while contributing to a fairer, more just, equal and sustainable world. Over the last 15 years, she has worked with women’s rights organizations, civil societies and governments in developing strategies, building partnerships, managing programs, and engaging communities towards the promotion and protection of women’s rights and the health of the planet.

This video was recorded in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio.

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"Women's rights organizations should collectively come up to speak about the issues of all women with disabilities. The fact that we are women with disabilities does not make us lesser women."

Lucy Mulombi shares her call to action in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio - a space where activists, advocates, experts and changemakers are invited to share parts of their stories, their calls to action and reminders of what true solidarity is.

Lucy Mulombi is a grassroots advocate for the rights of women and girls with disabilities. Lucy Mulombi is the chair of one of few organisations of people with disabilities run by women, and chair of Kakamega County Disability Caucus in rural Kenya. Lucy took part in a programme run by the Sightsavers-led coalition Inclusive Futures. She was a part of the Sightsavers delegation at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali from 17-20 July 2023.

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Ana Laura is the Executive Director and Co Founder of Soy Niña, a girl-serving organization that works in urban communities in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Ana Laura studied journalism and photography and graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has worked at nonprofit organizations and private foundations for over fourteen years and has experience in the areas of communications, event planning and fundraising. Ana Laura just recently finished a certificate degree in Nonprofit Management from Harvard Extension School. She's very passionate about raising awareness on the challenges that girls below the age of 18 face worldwide.

We talk about her work, about the challenges of starting and managing an organization like Soy Niña. She shares some incredibly inspirational stories from the girls in the community and some of her own. We talk about hope and motivation to take action, and more.

Learn more about Soy Niña here: www.soynina.org

Jules Lynch is the Founder and CEO of Global Girl Project. She’s the innovative developer of the organization’s programming and she works in partnership with NGOs and schools globally to implement and run leadership programs and initiatives for girls.

Over the past twenty years, Jules has worked as a Community Social Worker and Therapist in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. She has also spent extensive time working throughout many countries in the global majority - also known as the global south.

Jules is an inspirational speaker for businesses and organizations about how to be a changemaker in one’s own life, world and work.

We speak about her work with Global Girl Project and about what decolonization and intersectionality in global work really looks like. Jules shares her own perspectives on navigating changemaking work, self care and more.

Learn more about Global Girl Project: globalgirlproject.org

Support Global Girl Project's fundraising campaign in March 2024: chuffed.org/project/global-girls-run-the-world-2024

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This is part 2 of invaluable advice from changemakers! With a special focus on the importance of self care, community and connecting with your own power. We hear advice on managing hopelessness and uncomfortable work.

This episode features advice from Nasra Ayub, Bulelwa Adonis, Riya Williams Yuyada, Celina de Sola, Lina Abirafeh and Sharon D'Agostino.

"Put your health and your mental health first, there's no point in you being here if you're not functioning." - Nasra Ayub

In this episode, you'll hear from changemakers how they do just that. How do they stay hopeful, strong and confident in the midst of a very troubled world?

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It’s a new year - and we’re leaving a brutal year behind and entering in to one with great challenges. It doesn’t look like the world is going to change so quickly - which means that changemakers like yourself are more important than ever! We are needed to create a world where everyone can live in freedom and dignity.

"The only thing that will bring us out of hopelessness is taking action and being in solidarity." - Julia Wiklander

This episode has been created to help you do just that. Hear advice from Riya Williams Yuyada, Nasra Ayub, Beatrice Finh, Taveeshi Gupta, Amanda Litman and Neil Data.

Subscribe, learn more and find all previous episodes at girlsglobe.org/changemaker.

This is a takeover by ActionAid International and their campaign called #HerStory.

HerStory is an anti-modern slavery campaign by ActionAid International to raise awareness of the prevalence of modern slavery, shed light on the impact it has on women and girls in particular, and amplify the voice of female survivors.

In this podcast, you’ll hear a conversation led by ActionAid International’s Vanessa Power, as she speaks with Lela Tolajian and Eugenia A. Ayagiba.

Lela Tolajian is a human rights activist and the founder of the International Coalition Against Modern Slavery. She has worked extensively with non-profit organisations and elected officials on forced labour and trafficking. She is currently working as a youth activist and influencer on ActionAid’s anti-modern slavery campaign #HerStory.

Eugenia is the Women’s Rights and Campaign Manager at ActionAid Ghana.

They speak about the Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights, what modern slavery looks like today, and about the importance of coalitions and activism.

ActionAid brought a delegation of feminist activists to Geneva for the negotiations of the UN Binding Treaty. The delegation was a part of the Feminists 4Binding Treaty coalition. One of the coalition members was Sanyu Awori - Manager, Building Feminist Economies at the Association for Women's Rights in Development. In this episode, you'll hear Sanyu addressing the international community at the negotiations at the United Nations.

Learn more about #HerStory and read the stories from survivors of modern slavery at girlsglobe.org/herstory

In this episode Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls' Globe and host of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast speaks about what Feminist Solidarity means and how we can be a part of building it through a global digital media movement.

A feminist solidarity is one that sees the interlinkages of our shared humanity and planet.

If your heart breaks when witnessing what’s happening in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Myanmar. If your heart breaks for the injustice in our backyards. You’re in the right place.

It is not all up to you to make a difference. The only way we can do that is through collective organising, through collaboration, through partnerships. We must forge partnerships to make the impact we want to make in an increasingly hostile environment.

This year has been hard, it is dark. It is incredibly painful - and for all those who are suffering - I REFUSE to give up hope. I REFUSE to give in, and I invite you to refuse the same.

It is when good people do nothing that the oppression will continue. So we will do something.

In this episode I share three ways you can get involved in building feminist solidarity through a global media movement.

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The episode features a conversation between Shiphrah Belonguel, a Girls' Globe Fellow, and Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.

Latanya shares her personal journey into feminist grant-making, highlighting her experiences growing up as a black woman in the United States and her dedication to justice.

A turning point in her career occurred in Ethiopia, where she realized the importance of centering work around the actual needs of marginalized groups, particularly in sexual and reproductive health.

Latanya emphasizes the significance of changing hearts and minds to disrupt systems and advocates for a common narrative on sexual and reproductive health for women and girls. She discusses how Global Fund for Women involves adolescent girls in advisory roles, integrating their perspectives into the organization's governance and digital presence.

The conversation touches on the challenges of the online space, emphasizing the need to protect young activists from online violence.

Shiphrah concludes the podcast by asking Latanya for a message to young activists and feminists worldwide. Latanya encourages them to continue voicing their concerns, emphasizing the importance of their voices in creating a feminist future.

Nisha Anand is the CEO of Dream.org, a nonprofit organization that brings people together across racial, social and partisan lines to solve some of the toughest problems in the US and beyond. She is also the Political Director of Rebuild The Dream, an organization fighting for an economy that works for everyone. In essence, Nisha works at the intersection of criminal justice reform, green economics, and tech equity to create a better future for all.

For over twenty years Nisha Anand has been a social justice activist and leader. She has seen movements and organizations rise and fall. She uses what she has learned to support leaders, organisers and changemakers.

In this episode, we dive deep into the ways we can have meaningful conversations and social justice movements in a highly polarised world. Nisha shares personal stories of what has shaped her as an activist and into becoming a bridge-builder. She speaks about her work with Dream.org.

Nisha says that "The humanity that connects us must be stronger than what has been created to divide us".

Learn more about Nisha and her work* nishaanand.org * Ted Talk: go.ted.com/nishaanand * dream.org * Justice Innovation Prize: https://www.justiceinnovationprize.org/

Kim Smouter, the Executive Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). Kim is a policy and advocacy expert with nearly 20 years experience advocating social causes including LGBTQIA+ rights, employment, education and social affairs, civic space and dialogue, and digital rights.

Previously, Kim has held senior and leadership roles in the European Parliament, the European Network of National Civil Society Associations, and ESOMAR, the global trade association for opinion polling businesses. He holds a master’s degree in European Public Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in European Studies and is a graduate of the University of Maastricht.

In this conversation, Kim shares a story of what brought him to working with social change and justice. We talk about the challenges in Europe as Islamaphobia, anti-semitism, anti-immigrant sentiments and hate speech are on the rise. Kim shares how the European Network Against Racism works and how they work to combat discrimination and racism.

This conversation was recorded at WebSummit, a tech conference gathering more than 70,000 people in Lisbon, Portugal to meet and discuss the future of tech. From AI to startup pitches, talks on climate and democracy, and networking sessions and masterclasses, the conference has an important role in shaping how the industry prioritises human rights, equality and democracy.

I ask Kim about the role of tech in championing human rights and what he sees as the main barriers when big tech seems to be doing the exact opposite.

In light of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Kim addresses the calls to action that ENAR published for European leaders. We talk about the intersection between political conflicts, technology and the discrimination we see.

Learn more about the European Network Against Racism at enar-eu.org.

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In this episode of the Hey Changemaker podcast, you’ll hear a conversation from the Girls’ Globe Solidarity Studio. Girls’ Globe’s Advisor Felogene Anumo speaks with Spogmay Ahmed in a conversation centered around feminist foreign policy.

Spogmay Ahmed is the Senior Policy Advisor for the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative.In this capacity, she helps manage the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy and the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States, and provides overall policy and advocacy expertise for civil society, governments, and multilateral organizations.

Prior to joining the Collaborative, Spogmay served as Senior Global Policy Advocate at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), handling ICRW's portfolio on feminist foreign policy globally and in the United States. She has provided policy analysis and advocacy leadership in multilateral spaces, including the United Nations, G7, and G20.

Through her years of experience, Spogmay has gained a multifaceted understanding of the multilateral system - previously working with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand and the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN in New York. Spogmay holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University.

In this episode, Spogmay clarifies what Feminist Foreign policy is, and shares her own story of how she got involved in this work and what inspires her to work for gender equality and racial and social justice. She speaks about what gives her hope, despite the many crises that the world is facing right now.

We hope that this conversation can inspire you to look at your own government’s engagement in foreign policy. That it can help you see foreign policy in a new light - and help you see new ways to engage in global and international issues.

We’re so grateful for Spogmay’s generous participation in the Girls’ Globe Solidarity Studio, and for our wonderful feminist activist Felogene Anumo for leading this conversation.

Dr. Taveeshi Gupta is the Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at Equimundo. Her expertise lies in understanding the role of gender norms in perpetuating violence against women and children, creating inequitable home and workplace environments, and reinforcing inter-generational transmission of harmful gender identities for boys and girls.

In this conversation, Dr. Taveeshi Gupta speaks with Julia Wiklander about the new State of the World's Fathers report and about the status of men and gender equality. They speak about the impact of the digital world on boys, their ideas of gender equality and why we must involve boys in the gender equality work. Taveeshi shares personal stories of what brought her to work with men, boys and masculinities in the first place. She shares what brings her hope and how she stays motivated to continue this important work.

Taveeshi has been trained in rigorous mixed methodological research and is widely published. She is part of the Lancet Commission's Scientific Advisory Committee on Child Maltreatment and Violence Prevention and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Embracing Carers group. Before joining Equimundo, she worked as an independent consultant with Overseas Development Institute, UNICEF ROSA, Plan International, and Harvard’s Kennedy School. She has a BA and MA in Psychology from University of Delhi, and a PhD in Developmental Psychology from New York University.

Learn more from the research:

State of the World’s Fathers 2023 report
International Men & Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) (2022)
Global Boyhood Initiative: The State of UK Boys (2022)

Dr. Brenda Oulo is a feminist researcher specialising in multidisciplinary topics related to the well-being of adolescent girls. As the co-director of the Girls Agency Lab (GAL), Dr. Brenda leads an initiative that spans across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Rwanda. In addition, she's currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in the esteemed Wellcome Trust program at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield.

Agency, as Dr. Brenda knows all too well, is a vital construct that empowers girls to effect change in their own lives and communities. It's a key outcome of empowerment and life skills programs, yet finding a standard measure has proven to be a challenge.

But what is agency?

In this episode, we'll delve into Dr. Brenda groundbreaking work, exploring the importance of agency, its impact on girls' lives, and the quest to develop a meaningful and validated measurement. We speak about our own lives and Dr. Brenda shares personal stories of her own journey of empowerment and her relationship with agency.

This conversation really is a journey into the heart of change - where it all really begins. Dr. Brenda Oulo helps us to begin to uncover the pathways to enhancing the agency of adolescent girls, and the agency in our own lives.

In this episode, Julia Wiklander speaks about the horrors happening in Palestine and Israel and in other parts of the world. She shares how she believes we must let it break our hearts, to allow for compassion and determined action.

This episode includes audio from Sim Kern and Filippo Grande. The audio is taken from Instagram, and you can follow them @refugees and @sim_bookstagrams_badly.

Julia Wiklander is the Founder and President of Girls' Globe and the host of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast. She is a social entrepreneur, human rights advocate, writer and strategic communicator. Julia hosts an online course in Digital Storytelling for Impact and workshops on the intersection of feminist storytelling, digital media and strategic communications.

Japnit Ahuja is a dynamic force of change and the founder of Go Girl. As a machine learning enthusiast, social entrepreneur and dedicated educator, Japnit's journey is incredibly inspiring.

At the age of sixteen, Japnit was selected by the Singapore Government for a fully-funded scholarship, leading her to complete her high school education in Singapore. This experience exposed her to new cultures and instilled in her the qualities of resourcefulness and independence.

Japnit's fascination with coding and machine learning led her to publish a research paper and earn national-level academic honors. Her pursuit of knowledge and excellence took her to Ontario Tech University, Canada, where she's currently a third-year undergraduate.

Japnit is not only passionate about technology but also deeply committed to women's empowerment through education. At the age of 16, she founded Go Girl Code, a nonprofit organization. Go Girl Code's mission is to provide free coding workshops for underprivileged children in India, with a strong emphasis on closing the gender gap in the technology industry. The organization has made technology accessible to over 2,000 girls from remote and rural areas in India, teaching in native Indian languages.

Japnit's future path is a perfect fusion of her two passions: technology and women's empowerment. Her aim is to excel in her field and serve as an inspiration to the next generation of female computer scientists, breaking barriers and making a significant impact in the world of IT. Her recent accolades include winning women in technology scholarships from Adobe, Cadence, and Zonta in 2022. Japnit Ahuja's relentless commitment to education and gender equality is creating a brighter future for underprivileged students and empowering young women in technology.

Learn more:

https://www.japnitahuja.com/

https://www.gogirlorganisation.com/

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Jinsella is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education (dED). Over the past 5 years she has led on the development of a comprehensive model for carrying out university demilitarisation. This includes a treaty and the world’s first Universities and Arms Database which has so far uncovered over £1bn worth of UK universities partnerships with the military and defence sector. The database is an essential transparency tool designed so students can use evidence-based data to hold their universities accountable for their complicity in war.

Deeply exploring the global fight for peace, Jinsella is a talk show host for dED Talks, which has now welcomed over 100 modern day peacemakers including, Stella Assange, La Roux and Frank Barat and has been watched by over 17K people across social media.

Demilitarise Education works to break the ties between UK universities and the military and defence sector. dED has been training students how to research their universities involvement and upload it to dEDs universities and arms database which has so far uncovered over £1.3BN worth of partnerships.

Learn More

To learn more about Jinsella's work and Demilitarise Education, visit their website at ded1.co. Explore the dED Talks series on Instagram for inspiring conversations with peacemakers at @ded_ucation. Dive into the research and findings on the impact of militarized education through ICAN's research reports.

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Dr. Areeg Abdalmagid Abass is a Sudanese doctor and public health professional, with over 5 years of experience tackling inequity in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Areeg worked with the Federal Ministry of Health as a SRHR Emergency Preparedness and Response Officer focusing to anticipate vulnerability and undertake measures to more effectively mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from SRH emergencies in conflict areas and reproductive health needs amidst emergencies with the sole purpose of strengthening the fragile health system of the country.

During the past years, Areeg has led more than 5 national campaigns to raise awareness and advocate against gender based violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation to promote SRHR of women and young children in under-served communities. In 2020, she was named one of the 16 most influential women tackling SRHR in Sudan. She is also an alumnus of the Nobel Women Laureates program in Canada as well as being a Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumnus in 2022.

Areeg embarked on a journey of 6 days to reach Rwanda to be able to attend WD2023, because of the suspension of flights from Sudan and the complete closure of airports at that time. In this podcast Areeg shares her insights and the turmoil of experiences she went through while she fled the war in Khartoum.

The Hey Changemaker! Podcast is alive and well. We have a lot of interviews that have been conducted and many more scheduled in the coming weeks and months. However, those that are in the works will be published after the summer here in Sweden - coming back in September.

In the meantime, we will be sharing many stories from changemakers around the world via the Girls’ Globe platform. So, please subscribe at girlsglobe.org/emails to hear more from them and to follow along the many exciting things we are doing in the next few months.

If you haven’t listened to all of our existing 20+ episodes, go back and do so! I have been inspired by every single conversation.

All in all, I sincerely hope that this message can be a reminder for yourself to evaluate your own work and life - to dare to reprioritise and to dare to fail at living up to your own or others expectations. As we do this work, we need to be kind to ourselves and connect to our inner loving voice time and time again.

One thing that I have appreciated so much in the past year are the Women’s Circles hosted by Sharon D’Agostino. You can hear more about them in my conversation with her in episode 15. You can learn more and register for an upcoming one at girlsglobe.org/womenscircle.

Dr. Eva Lathrop is the Global Medical Director for Population Services International (PSI), a non-profit global health organization.

PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide, with programs in sexual and reproductive health, malaria, water and sanitation, HIV and non-communicable diseases.

Eva oversees a service delivery portfolio that spans over 30 countries and focuses on sexual and reproductive health, legal abortion and post-abortion care, and cervical cancer work. She also works to evolve PSI’s quality approach within primary health care.

Her experience prior to PSI spans 20 years of experience in clinical care, teaching, research and practice in global reproductive health. Her clinical and research interests include increasing access to contraception, legal abortion and post-abortion care in low-resource settings, restricted settings and in the context of complex emergencies.

In this episode, Dr. Eva Lathrop gives us insights into the status of access to abortion services in the United States and the pushback on reproductive freedom that she has witnessed as a physician in the US since the overturn of Roe v. Wade last year.

Eva shares personal stories, her sources for hope and real advice for changemakers everywhere.

Dr. Maureen Okango is a fistula surgeon from Kenya. She is a is a young, vibrant consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist. Passionate about maternal and newborn care, Maureen is not only a new graduate of the fellowship of fistula surgery, but also an Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care trainer. She is a principle master trainer of integrated antenatal and postnatal care as well as quality improvement. and a Ministry of Health trainer on screening for cervical cancer for precancerous lesions.

Maureen has sacrificially served as a trainer and mentor in The Vihiga County Referral Hospital and the wider Vihiga county, supporting health care providers in other health facilities through straining, mentorship and support supervision.

Maureen talks about her work and she shares her stories of working with women who’ve suffered an obstetric fistula. She shares so much hope and inspiration - and I am so incredibly grateful that she shared her time with me.

Learn more about Obstetric Fistula and consider donating to support the work of fistula surgeons like Maureen at fistulafoundation.org.

In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most ancient wounds of humanity.

Cynthia Brix is the co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. She is an ordained interfaith minister with a background in women’s issues and racial diversity. She has co-organized seven international conferences on interspirituality and two on women’s spiritual leadership across diverse religious and indigenous traditions. Cynthia holds an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and MA in wellness and gerontology, and she is certified in Grof Breathwork.

Cynthia is the co-author of a few books, one of which we talk a bit about today called, Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family.

The Gender Equity and Reconciliation International or GERI process was inspired by the principles of Truth and Reconciliation developed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa. It’s a process that has been developed and used for over three decades for thousands of people across six continents. The process aims to create safe forums to empower the unraveling of gender and sexual conditioning and initiate a whole new culture of gender relations and community.

The actor and author of Man Enough, Justin Baldoni, says that “Gender equity is the one certain step to heal humanity… this book and the GERI program illuminate a path to do just that.”

Cynthia Brix shares her stories and helps us understand more about how we can heal the ancient wound of gender inequity.

Learn more at www.GRworld.org

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Amina Umuhoza is an entrepreneur, menstruation activist and champion of adolescents sexual and reproductive health in Rwanda. She is the CEO of of SAYE company ltd - a social enterprise that designs creative tools to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents.

Together with My Period is Awesome, SAYE has opened the Kigali Menstruation Station - a safe space for adolescents to learn more about sexual and reproductive health without stigma.

At SAYE, Amina leads a range of entrepreneurial endeavours, one being an economic part of their business that focuses on turning trash into decors The locally made home decoration items are produced by teen mums and youth to be sold in SAYE home decor shop.

She has been recognized for her work and leadership in various ways. She is the member of the MasterCard Foundation Youth Advisory group and was a youth advisory board member at DOT Rwanda. She has been recognized among top 10 outstanding alumni of the US embassy exchange program. Amina was recognized among the top 40 Education Innovators in Africa by the African Union and was selected among the top 18 East African social entrepreneurs to join the Change Maker Exchange Program in 2019. And this is to only name a few…

Amina is passionate about creating safe spaces for young people to learn and grow, and about protecting the environment. She is TRULY an entrepreneur, and we speak about her journey to where she is today, which wasn’t so straightforward.

She shares her best advice about goal-setting and entrepreneurship and gives insights into the situation for teenage girls and young women in Rwanda.

How can you stay hopeful when witnessing unspeakable crimes against women and girls? That and so much more in this episode of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast.

Ruchira Gupta is an author and activist who believes in a world in which no child is bought or sold. After winning an Emmy for her documentary on sex-trafficking, she set up an NGO called Apne Aap, that has helped thousands of girls and women exit systems of sexual exploitation.

She has worked with the UN to change laws and policies in countries all over the world to end sex-trafficking.

We talk about her amazing work, her upcoming book and debut novel, I Kick and I Fly, based on experiences related to her, the change that she has seen in the past 20 years and the challenges that remain. She shares personal stories and truly, a message of hope.

Learn more and connect with Ruchira Gupta via these links:

www.ruchiragupta.com

www.apneaap.org

Instagram: @RuchiraaGupta

Twitter: @RuchiraGupta

Facebook: @RuchiraGuptawriter

This is our 20th episode of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast!So far we’ve reached listeners in over 47 countries, from Pakistan to Paraguay and from New Zealand to the Netherlands. This is a weekly podcast, however, we will be taking a one month break to review, improve and leave some time to prepare future episodes of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast.

In the meantime, you're invited to share your questions, comments or thoughts in a voice message.

Do you have any concerns in your work as a changemaker that you’d like us to discuss?
Do you have questions for me or about Girls’ Globe?
Do you have any comments or additions you’d like to make to the conversations that we’ve had so far?
Perhaps you want to tell us what you like about this podcast?
Or maybe you just have an inspirational message to share with our global community of changemakers?

If so - go to girlsglobe.org/changemaker and scroll to the section called Leave a Message or Ask a Question.

Once you’ve recorded and submitted your recording, we will review and may very well use your question or comment in an upcoming episode - or even as the basis of a conversation.

Even in difficult and stressful times, one thing is certain we are MANY. We are activists, advocates, experts, allies, friends and people who want to say they did something. Encouragement and positivity is needed to continue our important work for gender equality, human rights, social justice and a sustainable and peaceful world.

So, I’ve taken to the Girls’ Globe archives to pull out positive and encouraging messages from amazing people from around the world - who share your commitment to making this world a better place.

In this episode you will hear uplifting messages for changemakers on power, self-care, resilience and more, featuring:

Imelda Coulibaly, Abusu Health, (Côte D'Ivoire)
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete, Anti-FGM Activist (Kenya)
Evelyn, girls education advocate (Uganda)
Daniela Ligiero, Together for Girls (USA)
Lina AbiRafeh, Activist, Speaker and Independent Consultant (Lebanon/USA)
Sharon D'Agostino, SayItForward.org (USA)

What's the status of gender equality in one of the world's most gender equal countries?

When looking at gender equality rates globally, Sweden has been in the top 5 countries for a long time. Internationally, Sweden has been known for its focus on development, aid, gender equality and human rights. The previous government even pioneered a feminist foreign policy. However - recent years have seen a shift in the public discourse on these issues.

In this episode, I speak to a representative from academia, Niclas Järvklo, the General Secretary of the Swedish Women’s Organizations, Clara Berglund, and the newly appointed Minister of Gender Equality, Paulina Brandberg. The conversations were recorded at the Swedish Gender Equality Forum in February 2023.

Please share your thoughts under the post for this episode at girlsglobe.org/changemaker.

In most parts of the world, intimate partner violence is so frequent it can be called an epidemic. In South Africa, rates of gender based violence are five times higher than the global average.

Bulelwa Adonis is a multi-passionate woman from South Africa using her voice to encourage, educate, entertain and be a mouthpiece for those who cannot speak. She currently holds a Higher Certificate in Counseling and Communication and is currently studying towards a degree in Psychology, where she hopes to impact communities. She is a mental health advocate, a social justice activist (particularly against GBV) and the Spokesperson for the organization Women for Change South Africa. She is a writer, poet and speaker.

In this episode we speak about rape, femicides and rape culture in South Africa. We talk about the important work of Women for Change South Africa. Bulelwa also shares her own stories of overcoming trauma, and how she turned her pain into activism.

Understanding the anti-gender and anti-rights movements in Europe is essential to defending and safeguarding human rights and democracy in Europe and across the world - and for pushing for more progressive change for gender equality, human rights and in essence sustainability.

My guest is Neil Datta, Founder and Executive Director of European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Neil has over fifteen years’ experience in the field of political involvement in population and development. Throughout this period he has conducted in-depth research on anti-choice activity in Europe, publishing a report in 2018 that continues to receive worldwide media attention.

Our conversation is really about the anti-gender and anti-rights movements in Europe, what they look like, where the funding for them comes from, their growth and development in recent years. We also speak about what we can do to defend gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

If you’re interested in reading the reports published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights go to epfweb.org

Storytelling is an essential part of the life of any changemaker, and it is a necessary part of connecting with our own humanity and the humanity of others.

In this episode, Sharon Kathryn D'Agostino, founder of SayItForward.org and co-host of The Power of Stories podcast, shares why storytelling is so powerful. We talk about the different ways (and why!) she is creating space for people, and women in particular, to share their stories and connect with their own truth. Sharon also hosts monthly Women's Circles that are an important part of my own self-care, which we also talk about. You can learn more about submit your interest in joining a Women's Circle at girlsglobe.org/womenscircle.

This is such an uplifting episode, as Sharon connects us with her belief in the power of love, compassion, and gratitude in shaping a kinder, gentler, more compassionate world for all.

It isn't easy to keep moving forward towards you dreams and goals - especially as a changemaker. In this episode, I share some simple things you can do to help you consistently move toward your goals and dreams. These small things can be life changing, and can really help you move forward this year.

As you plan for the year ahead and set your goals, you’ll notice that you may have to start new habits or build new beliefs about yourself. You'll have to work through disappointments and failures. Even research shows that working towards your goals can result in an emotional and physical toll.

In this episode, I share how you can begin to consciously audit your mindset and the thoughts you have about yourself, the world and success. I share some personal journal entries and talk about how the stories we tell ourselves have so much power - and what we can do about it.

I hope you join me on this journey, because the world really needs you, and most importantly - YOU need you!

What President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia said is especially true for changemakers. "If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough. The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.”

So, how do we set goals as changemakers?

In this episode, I share a strategy to set holistic goals that looks a bit different from everything we've been taught about goals. Grab your journal and a pen, and let's think through the year ahead together. It's time to go beyond S.M.A.R.T goals and leave hustle culture behind. Who do you want to be this year, changemaker?

A new year is a perfect time for new beginnings - a time to reflect on our desires and goals, and to grow. For me, it isn’t about setting new year’s resolutions, but to tune in to my vision, my purpose and the big dreams I have for myself in the world. It’s about reflecting and creating an environment for positive change on a personal level.

Join me for the entire month of January and let's gain clarity for the year ahead, to define success and set goals as changemakers in a world that's burning.

I hope you'll join me.

This year has been pain upon pain upon pain for so many. We are managing both direct trauma of a rangde of different crises or the secondary trauma of witnessing them unfold in front of our eyes.

For me, it has been incredibly important to name the trauma of being a changemaker, activist or advocate (whaterver you want to call it) in a world full of crises and pain.

In this episode I share some of my learnings and commitments after a difficult year, from self care to how I'm dedicated to do more. I also share some news from Girls' Globe about our new free memberships and how YOU can be a part of a global feminist media movement for gender equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability.

Sending you so much love, gratitude and solidarity in a world of crisis and pain.

See you next year, changemaker!

This episode is one that really looks into HOW to do socially transformative work in societies that are seen as extremely difficult and violent. My guest is Celina de Sola, co-founder and President of Glasswing International, an organization that addresses the root causes and consequences of poverty and violence in 12 countries across Latin America. They do this through community-based education and health, as well as youth empowerment.

Celina has 25 years of experience working in international development, as well as in humanitarian settings.

Our conversation digs into the work of Glasswing International, her journey to being a part of starting the organization, and the impact the organization has had since then. We also talk about focusing on and truly SEEING people when working with social change, about trauma and hope. Celina also shares her best advice to other changemakers and social entrepreneurs.

I’m so grateful for this meaningful conversation and all the wisdom that Celina shares with us. I hope you find it helpful too!

Dr. Maliha Khan is President and CEO of Women Deliver and has over 25 years of experience in international development and girls’ and women’s empowerment.

In this episode, Maliha shares what brought her to work for the rights and health of women and girls in particular. We talk about her new role at Women Deliver and taking over after the organization’s reckoning with racism and white saviorism. Maliha shares her views on international aid and development, a sector in need of decolonization. We also talk about the upcoming Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda in July 2023, and why it is an important opportunity to convene and mobilize.

Marit Törnqvist is an award-winning illustrator and children's book author. She has been involved with children's rights and book projects around the world. In recent years, she has worked to support asylum-seekers in Sweden and the Netherlands. On International Refugee Day 2022, Marit attracted attention with the installation 'The Big Loss' outside the parliament in Stockholm, where she had captured the stories of 502 refugees that individuals and families in Sweden have lost.

We talk about how Marit uses her work to make a difference, and how she started her journey as a changemaker. She shares her personal story of how she got involved with Afghan refugees in Sweden, and talks about the tremendous pain so many have endured since 2015. We talk about what we can do to make a difference and how artists can use their art for impact.

Learn more about Marit Törnqvist and her work at www.marittornqvist.nl

If you speak Swedish and want to learn more about the situation for refugees in Sweden, I recommend the book Tjugofemton: till asylrättens försvar, in which I've contributed a chapter. Get it here: https://tjugofemton.se

What if young people made the decisions on development aid? What if they led funding for the change the world needs? That's the world Nasra Ayub is working to create.

Nasra Ayub is a multi-award winning women’s rights campaigner, speaker and writer from Bristol in the United Kingdom. Nasra is a part of Global Fund for Children’s work and specifically supports the implementation of the Spark Fund, a global, youth-led participatory fund that we speak more about in this conversation.

Learn more about the Spark Fund here: https://globalfundforchildren.org/initiatives/the-spark-fund/

Follow Nasra on social media at @nasra_ayub on Twitter @nasra.ayub on Instagram.

This episode is all about the importance of engaging in politics to fix our broken societies and create change ourselves, and I have a very special guest to help us navigate this topic!

Amanda Litman is the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for local office in the United States. Since 2017, they’ve identified more than 120,000 young people across the country who want to run. She's also the author of the book, “Run for Something: A Real Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself,” and previously hosted two podcasts, “Run for Something: The Podcast” on Dear Media and “Battleground” from The Recount.

Prior to launching Run for Something, Amanda has worked with several political campaigns, including as email director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and as an email writer for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

We talk about how Hillary Clinton's loss sparked Amanda to start Run for Something. We talk about her entrepreneurial journey that has led to so much change already.

Learn more about Amanda Litman and her work at runforsomething.net, @amandalitman and @runforsomething on Twitter, @amandalitm and @runforsomethingnow on Instagram

Riya Williams Yuyada is a 31 year old women’s human rights and peace activist from South Sudan. She’s the founder & Executive Director of Crown The Woman-South Sudan, a national grassroots feminist organization that works to foster a future with zero tolerance for inequality, inequity, and injustice.

Riya is also co-founder of Play for Peace South Sudan, which provides technical support to the South Sudan High Level Revitalization (HLRF) forum peace talks, a peace initiative in South Sudan. Riya advocates for women’s empowerment and peace-building initiatives through a feminist lens, and has done so at many different levels.

She has been awarded the Amnesty International Ginatta Sagan award that recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. Riya is also the former Miss South Sudan Uganda, and has experience speaking on stages around the world about her work.

Riya is such a force of nature and in this episode shares several powerful personal stories, as well as stories of women and girls that she has worked with. She speaks about her return to South Sudan, a country she was forced to leave as a young girl. We talk about the situation in South Sudan, about her work with Crown the Woman and how she stays driven and hopeful despite working with people who have endured unspeakable traumas. Riya shares some powerful stories and amazing advice for those dealing with trauma and speaks about her own journey to healing.

Content warning: Sexual violence is mentioned in this episode.

You can learn more about Crown the Woman - South Sudan at www.crownthewoman.org and you can connect on social media through @CrownTheWoman and @theonlyriya1.

In this conversation we talk about the current situation with nuclear threats, Putin’s war in Ukraine and why nuclear disarmament is SO important. We talk about how we can all be a part of creating change on an issue that can seem so much bigger than ourselves - and the progress that is being made for a world free from nuclear weapons. We also talk about the stress and anxiety that comes with thinking about war, conflict and the ever present threat of nuclear weapons, and Beatrice shares her best advice with us.

We talk about Sweden as an example and Beatrice shares why she started working against nuclear weapons in the first place.

Beatrice Fihn is the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN). In 2017 she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.

Beatrice has led the campaign since 2014 and has worked to mobilize civil society throughout the development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that Entered into Force on January 22nd 2021. She is an expert on weapons law, humanitarian law, civil society engagement in diplomacy and multilateral institutions, as well as the gender perspective on disarmament work.

Beatrice Fihn holds a master’s degree in law from the University College London and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stockholm University. She has been listed as one of the 50 innovators who changed the global landscape in 2017 by Bloomberg Media. Beatrice Fihn is also the Executive Producer of the film “The Day the World Changed”, the first-ever interactive virtual reality memorial experience to pay tribute to those affected directly by nuclear warfare spanning back to 1945.

This is an episode that I recommend you listen to in its entirety. Beatrice is full of wisdom and inspiration for us to do more for a peaceful and just world.

Learn more about ICAN and the work to ban nuclear weapons at www.icanw.org. You can also follow Beatrice and ICAN on social media @beafihn and @nuclearban.

In this episode we speak about being an activist at this time when the pushback on women’s rights around the globe is a reality. We talk about dealing with hopelessness, the situation in Iran and Lina shares insights into the next chapter of her life as an activist.

Lina AbiRafeh is a global women’s rights expert and gender equality advocate with decades of experience worldwide. Lina is a POWER HOUSE!

She’s an activist, a writer, an academic, and an aid worker with a 25-year track record in creating positive change for women in over 20 countries around the world. Lina was the Executive Director at the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University for many years and serves on a range of organizations in a senior advisory capacity. She’s on the international boards of SheDecides, the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, the Global Women’s Institute, and others.

Lina is a writer and a speaker - and her energy is contagious!

The Hey Changemaker! Podcast conversations with inspirational changemakers starts next week! Until then, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you a bit more about myself,. In this episode I share:

What brought me to starting Girls' Globe and leave a "dream job" at the UN
The impact that the pandemic had on our organization
An honest share about what Girls' Globe needs right now
Why this podcast is extra important to me right now - and perhaps for you too

Before we dig into the amazing conversations with changemakers from around the world - have a listen to this episode with me, Julia Wiklander.

The Hey Changemaker! podcast will bring you uplifting conversations to build solidarity and hope - and help you take inspired action by using your gifts, passions, frustrations and uniqueness. It will inspire positive change for gender equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability around the world - by lifting up the people creating that change.

In the trailer you'll hear the voices of:

anti-nuclear advocate and Nobel Peace Prize recipient - Beatrice Finh (ICAN),
humanitarian and social entrepreneur transforming communities across Latin America - Celina de Sola.
gender equality advisor, advocate, writer and speaker - Lina AbiRafeh,
award-winning illustrator, child and refugee advocate - Marit Törnqvist,
renowned peace and gender equality advocate in South Sudan - Riya Williams

and host Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls' Globe - the global feminist media platform for gender equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability.