Guests: WE Empower Challenge winners Hadeel Anabtawi & Habiba Ali with Amanda Ellis
While female entrepreneurs have made great strides in some countries, in the U.S. and other nations women still face significant barriers that just aren’t there for male-headed start-ups. Despite that, women leaders are making a difference by promoting positive change in their local communities – changes that can have a global impact.
The United Nations recognizes several entrepreneurial women every year with their WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge; it promotes female founders globally who run successful businesses while supporting the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Past winners Hadeel Anabtawi of Jordan and Habiba Ali of Nigeria join Challenge co-chair Amanda Ellis to discuss their successes, their challenges…and the importance of women working with each other to overcome those challenges.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
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Women entrepreneurs interested in the next WE Empower UN SDG Challenge can apply at https://weempower.awardsplatform.com/ . More information about the challenge in general is available at https://globalfutures.asu.edu/we-empower/ . The website for Habiba’s renewable energy organization is https://sosairen.org/ .
The Alchemist Lab, Hadeel’s STEM/STEAM program, has information at https://www.thealchemistlabacademy.com/ .
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