Board Chair of United World Colleges and CARE International Supervisory Board, Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, is also a member of the Council, London School of Economics, and chairs its Ethics Committee. In addition, Musimbi is a Board Member of the United Nations Global Compact and also serves as a Senior Gender Advisor for its accelerator, Target Gender Equality. Musimbi Kanyoro was President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women (2011- 2019).
Previously, she was the Director of Population and Reproductive Health at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Before moving to the USA in 2007, Musimbi spent 20 years in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked for the Lutheran World Federation for 10 years as Executive Secretary for Women in Church and Society.
She was then appointed General Secretary of the World YWCA in 1998, a position she held for a decade. Musimbi is a frequent public speaker and has written and published on Women’s Human Rights, gender, philanthropy, and theology. She facilitates dialogues and mentorship programs for emerging leaders, including Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, Homeward Bound and WEAfrica.
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This social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges — Join the Revolution!
What is certain to be a bestseller, the 2024 book —
The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy — tells the inspiring, never-before-told story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement, considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money to free themselves from oppression.
Co-authored by 10 international powerhouses — Ndana Bofu-Tawamba, Ruby Bright, Stephanie Clohesy, Musimbi Kanyoro, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ana Oliveira, Laura Risimini, Jane Sloane, and Jessica Tomlin — this book is an important read for everyone interested in the long-practiced Feminist Funding Principles imparted by the authors. It is a recipe for the feminist alchemy needed to transform society for the betterment of all.
Brimming with feminist epiphanies, this social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges, overcoming patriarchy’s multi-millennium reign through the uprising of women leaders and philanthropists. Founded during the second-wave women’s movement of the early 1970s, small groups of women worldwide, independent of each other, had the same epiphany: it will take a movement of women to raise the money needed to fund women’s freedom.
Since then, the Global Women’s Funding Movement has grown into a global network of radically generous, risk-taking philanthropists who collectively wield financial might to win seismic gender equality victories. The authors document the “Women Effect” that results from gender equality and women’s collective leadership, including improved public health and reproductive justice, expanded public education, more robust democracies, resilient economies, climate recovery, and enduring peace.
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