Power to the Pacha People!

Yesterday I had the amazing opportunity to attend the annual Pachamama Alliance fundraiser at Fort Mason in San Francisco (along with 1,500 of my closest friends!). If you’re not familiar with the Pachamama Alliance, you have to check them out.
The Pachamama Alliance is an incredible organization with a two-fold mission:

To empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to [...]

Summit Recap: Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future

This past week I was fortunate to attend a West Coast Sustainability Summit hosted by the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future.
WNSF is a national association of women professionals who are passionate about integrating sustainability principles into their organizations and businesses.
This year’s second annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Summit, hosted by IBM at the company’s [...]

Meeting Our Future Women Leaders

This weekend I was lucky enough to be featured as a panelist at the third annual Boston University 85 Broads conference. The theme of the event was “Rising to the Top,” and it brought together an incredible group of professional and undergraduate women to learn from each other and network.
If you aren’t familiar with 85 [...]

Don’t Be Late. Period.

Recently, at The Feast conference, I was introduced to an organization called Sustainable Health Enterprises (aka: SHE). Elizabeth Scharpf, founder of SHE, was on-hand at the event to share with us how her organization uses market-based approaches to solve a seriously pressing problem.
But first: take a minute to think about what your life would look [...]

The World is a Mess

There’s an incredible video making its way around the internet called “The Girl Effect,” and it starts with this statement: The World is a Mess. I’ve watched this short clip a bunch of times, and it never fails to give me chills. Check it out here:

Pretty powerful, isn’t it?
As the video closes, a sentence comes [...]