The world is reeling out of control. With the many crises we are facing simultaneously, who, we all ask, can lead us out of this time of...

I, and everyone I know, loves stories. Stories connect us with our common humanity, our dreams, joys, and challenges. By hearing others’...

I find that most people want to make a difference but are short of time or don’t know how. We can make a difference in many ways, some of...

Many people ask me how we can stay balanced in this ever-changing and more demanding world. My response - we need to build our capacity...

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world...

The one thing most people can agree on these days is that we need better answers to overcome the growing violence, discord,...

I recently returned from a remarkable two week fact finding citizen diplomacy trip to Russia with a delegation of 30 professionals from...

CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is a landmark international agreement that affirms...

Human trafficking is a global problem that has grown into a multi-billion dollar a year industry. It enslaves people, primarily young...

When Mejgon was 11 years old, her father sold her to a married 60-year-old Afghanistan man for two boxes of heroin. “In my whole life,...

The United Nations General Assembly just adopted new global goals that will galvanize and prioritize the key global issues of our day....

FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation is the practice, traditional in some cultures, of partially or totally removing the external genitalia...

Ubuntu is an African word that embodies so much of what we seek in society today. In the Xhosa and Zulu languages ubuntu means "people...

So much has been said about the importance of developing our IQ, our rational intelligence, and more recently about EQ, our emotional...

“The great malady of the 20th century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is 'loss of soul'....

We are the first generation of women who have had careers for most of our lives. We are living lives that most of our parents and...

Most of us have been very concerned about the attacks on Arab Americans across the United States since the September 11 terrorist attacks...

International Women's Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations' days designated to a global issue. Although not well-known, it...

Standing with twelve thousand women from every possible cultural, ethnic and religious group at the extraordinary United Nations Decade...

International Women’s Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations’ days designated to a key global issue. Although not well known,...