Vital Voices network member Panmela Castro recently traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC, to lead workshops and paint public murals.  Read More

This year, we joined with advocates and leaders to recognize women’s international progress towards equality, prosperity and peace.  Read More

Rebecca Lolosoli of Kenya recently received a GR8! Women Award for her exemplary achievements in women’s rights. Read More

We were watching closely as Kah Walla, Vital Voices Global Leadership Network member, ran for president as a candidate of the Cameroon People’s Party. Read More

We are delighted to announce that a number of Vital Voices Global Leadership Network Members have been selected as Powerful Women Who are Changing the World by OneWorld Action. Read More

The courage and leadership of women such as President Sirleaf and Kah Walla make it more possible, more likely, that more women will engage in public life and rise as political leaders. Read More

Vital Voices staff member Melissa Morales on a recent trip to New York and Connecticut with two of the talented women artisans in our Global Leadership Network. Seeing Phelicia and Rebecca in the hotel lobby as we prepared to visit the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) headquarters in New York, I felt immensely privileged. Joining them on this meeting was a last-minute development. I was accompanying my colleagues Kianoosh and Zoe, who head the Entrepreneurs in Handcrafts program at Vital Voices and who had been looking forward to this series of meetings for weeks. Read More

On International Women's Day 2010, Board Member Diane von Furstenberg hosts Global Leadership Award honoree Panmela Castro of Brazil. Read More

June 25 marked the launch of Vital Voices’ New York Council at an event hosted by friend of Vital Voices, media icon Tina Brown. Read More