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Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower – edited by Vital Voices President and CEO Alyse Nelson featuring paintings by Gayle Kabaker – is an unprecedented art exhibition and companion book celebrating 100 global women leaders who are redefining power. The exhibition and book feature original portraits accompanied by thought-provoking excerpts of first-person narratives.

Candid and compelling, each leader shares personal stories, insights and ideas, showing us that women lead differently, and that this difference is sorely needed in our world today. While each woman is pathbreaking in her own right, it’s together that these 100 voices illustrate the transformative power of women’s leadership across cultures, industries and generations.

The series includes women from across Vital Voices’ powerful network of leaders and other women leaders using their power, platform and voice to empower and give voice to others, such as:

Amanda Gorman, the first U.S. Youth Poet Laureate
Chief Kachindamoto, a chief in Malawi who is working to end child marriage
Lina Khalifeh, founder of SheFighter – the first women’s self-defense studio in the Middle East
Bozoma Saint John, Chief Marketing Officer for William Morris Endeavor
Donna Langley, Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad
Fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg
US Women’s National Soccer team Captain Megan Rapinoe

The Vital Voices: 100 Women Using their Power to Empower book, published by Assouline, is now available. Donate $95 or more today and we’ll send you a copy as a thank you.