Hear from Visionaries from Around the World
Hear from Visionaries from Around the World
The Global Ignite Series features
transformative leaders who are making an impact regionally and globally.
The Global Ignite Series features
transformative leaders who are making an impact regionally and globally.
Rangina Hamidi
Former Minister of Education | Afghanistan
Professor of Practice | Thunderbird School of Global Management
United Arab Emirates
Rangina Hamidi
Former Minister of Education | Afghanistan
Professor of Practice | Thunderbird School of Global Management
United Arab Emirates
Coming in October
Coming in October
The Power of Community and Equal Access
The Power of Community and Equal Access
Jasmine Anouna is the daughter of refugees and immigrants. She's driven by a passion for deep listening and building social impact communities across ideas, people, and cultures. Jasmine founded The Bloom, the world’s go-to platform for social impact careers. In just 3 years, The Bloom’s newsletter, learning platform, and events amassed a community of 40,000+ impact leaders in search of meaningful connections, economic growth, and knowledge sharing.
Jasmine Anouna is the daughter of refugees and immigrants. She's driven by a passion for deep listening and building social impact communities across ideas, people, and cultures. Jasmine founded The Bloom, the world’s go-to platform for social impact careers. In just 3 years, The Bloom’s newsletter, learning platform, and events amassed a community of 40,000+ impact leaders in search of meaningful connections, economic growth, and knowledge sharing.
The Bloom's vision is to make sure growth in social impact careers is no longer a "network privilege" but a reality for changemakers everywhere – that no matter your social or economic status, you can have equal access to top quality career, mentorship, and economic opportunities in social impact.
The Bloom's vision is to make sure growth in social impact careers is no longer a "network privilege" but a reality for changemakers everywhere – that no matter your social or economic status, you can have equal access to top quality career, mentorship, and economic opportunities in social impact.
About the Series
About the Series
The Global Ignite Series embodies WIA's belief that when women connect across borders and share their stories, everyone benefits from the collective inspiration and wisdom that emerge.
The Global Ignite Series embodies WIA's belief that when women connect across borders and share their stories, everyone benefits from the collective inspiration and wisdom that emerge.
Global Ignite Sessions are 1-hour virtual gatherings where you hear directly from visionaries, activists, and innovative leaders who are creating tangible social and environmental impact in their communities.
Global Ignite Sessions are 1-hour virtual gatherings where you hear directly from visionaries, activists, and innovative leaders who are creating tangible social and environmental impact in their communities.
At each Global Ignite session, guest speakers share their journey, including challenges faced, successes achieved, and lessons learned in driving change across diverse contexts and cultures. Past speakers include successful social entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, acclaimed authors, pioneering climate scientists, and human rights activists.
At each Global Ignite session, guest speakers share their journey, including challenges faced, successes achieved, and lessons learned in driving change across diverse contexts and cultures. Past speakers include successful social entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, acclaimed authors, pioneering climate scientists, and human rights activists.
Explore Previous Global Ignite Sessions
Explore Previous Global Ignite Sessions
The Link Between Educating Girls and Developing Women Leaders
The Link Between Educating Girls and Developing Women Leaders
Rangina Hamidi is a powerful advocate for girls' education whose personal and professional journey illuminates why educating women is inseparable from building a just world. In this interview she talks about how:
Rangina Hamidi is a powerful advocate for girls' education whose personal and professional journey illuminates why educating women is inseparable from building a just world. In this interview she talks about how:
Education is the only truly sustainable investment. Education gives women an enduring source of ideas, motivation, and independence that no one can take away.
Education is the only truly sustainable investment. Education gives women an enduring source of ideas, motivation, and independence that no one can take away.
Women in leadership need active support systems. Political backing, celebration of achievements, and structural support are essential for women to sustain leadership roles.
Women in leadership need active support systems. Political backing, celebration of achievements, and structural support are essential for women to sustain leadership roles.
Girls' education is weaponized as a political tool. Women's autonomy has historically been used as a bargaining chip, demanding systemic policies and protections.
Girls' education is weaponized as a political tool. Women's autonomy has historically been used as a bargaining chip, demanding systemic policies and protections.
Transformation requires dialogue even with adversaries. We must find the courage to engage with opposing perspectives, because sustainable change only happens through genuine exchange.
Transformation requires dialogue even with adversaries. We must find the courage to engage with opposing perspectives, because sustainable change only happens through genuine exchange.
How to use Opposition to Fuel Your Passion
How to use Opposition to Fuel Your Passion
Maestro Jessica Bejarano is a trailblazing conductor, founder of the San Francisco Philharmonic, and queer Latina woman from East LA who turned systemic exclusion into a lifelong fuel for breaking barriers in classical music. Here's what she shared:
Maestro Jessica Bejarano is a trailblazing conductor, founder of the San Francisco Philharmonic, and queer Latina woman from East LA who turned systemic exclusion into a lifelong fuel for breaking barriers in classical music. Here's what she shared:
Adversity became the engine, not the obstacle. Jessica consistently reframed hostility as motivation to go further rather than a reason to retreat.
Adversity became the engine, not the obstacle. Jessica consistently reframed hostility as motivation to go further rather than a reason to retreat.
Passion and purpose are non-negotiable survival tools. Jessica credits following genuine passion, not proving others wrong, as what sustains a difficult career.
Passion and purpose are non-negotiable survival tools. Jessica credits following genuine passion, not proving others wrong, as what sustains a difficult career.
Representation is inseparable from the work. Standing on the podium as a queer woman of color from an immigrant, working-class background carries meaning beyond music; Jessica sees her presence in these spaces as actively making room for others who have been told they don't belong.
Representation is inseparable from the work. Standing on the podium as a queer woman of color from an immigrant, working-class background carries meaning beyond music; Jessica sees her presence in these spaces as actively making room for others who have been told they don't belong.
How Change Happens: Wisdom from 200+ Visionary Leaders
How Change Happens: Wisdom from 200+ Visionary Leaders
Lauren Schiller and Hadley Dynak, co-authors of It's a Good Day to Change the World, share hard-won wisdom from 200+ interviews with women change-makers, distilled into a joyful, accessible guide for anyone trying to make the world better.
Lauren Schiller and Hadley Dynak, co-authors of It's a Good Day to Change the World, share hard-won wisdom from 200+ interviews with women change-makers, distilled into a joyful, accessible guide for anyone trying to make the world better.
Change follows a repeatable arc. The book is organized around five stages that emerged from rigorous qualitative analysis of the interviews, offering a practical framework anyone can apply.
Change follows a repeatable arc. The book is organized around five stages that emerged from rigorous qualitative analysis of the interviews, offering a practical framework anyone can apply.
Perfectionism is a strategic trap. The pressure to excel always costs women energy and action, and that "done is better than perfect" and sharing your mistakes openly are among the most powerful tools available.
Perfectionism is a strategic trap. The pressure to excel always costs women energy and action, and that "done is better than perfect" and sharing your mistakes openly are among the most powerful tools available.
Self-care is resistance, not retreat. Wellbeing emerged unprompted as a consistent theme across all 200 interviews.
Self-care is resistance, not retreat. Wellbeing emerged unprompted as a consistent theme across all 200 interviews.
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