Friday 8th March is International Women’s Day. To celebrate we have gathered a panel of extraordinary speakers to discuss the global movement for gender equality.
Named “Young Arab of the Year” in 2016 for her work in youth advocacy, literature, and journalism, author Dubai Abulhoul Alfalasi is the youngest member of the 13-member Emirates Youth Council, and is currently studying the effect of gender roles and culture on political participation in her home country.
Motivational speaker and philanthropist Zelda la Grange is the author of Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, a memoir on her time as private secretary to Nelson Mandela for over 19 years, and is the Patron for the First for Women Foundation.
Katherine Ormerod is the founder of Work Work Work, an anti-perfectionism project which aims to reveal and explore the non-edited challenges that women face behind the fantasy of social media. She is the author of Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life.
Jennifer Palmieri was the former White House Director of Communications and Director of Communications for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. She is the author of Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World.
Language: English with Arabic translation