Francia Márquez — a former housekeeper and activist—is Colombia’s first Black vice president. For the first time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is close to the top of the executive branch. Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country’s first Black vice president on 29th of May, as the running mate to Gustav
Khanyi Chaba comes into this talk as head of responsible business in one of Africa’s largest insurance companies. In her own words, she feels great responsibility to help repair the future, and leave behind a world that is sound and sustainable for future generations. She is also a long distance runner who has completed some of the world's most challenging ultramarathons multiple times, and a mountaineer who has summited some of the planet’s highest peaks. Khanyi makes the po
Women who has changed the world. Wangari Maathai. ⎰ I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to