 So welcome everybody I thought it was appropriate to begin the session with the clip one because it was Done by one of our esteemed panelists Tiffany Schlein Who's the co-founder of 5050 day and made that film and also because it to me really sort of evoked? the energy of this movement this global movement and Also sort of how when we collectively come together and sort of unite with a lot of diversity of voices to really move this Conversation forward this you know movement towards gender equality, which has never been more important than I feel like it is today So welcome to women leadership in power. What will it take? I'm Marianne Schnaul and What will it take? It's partially inspired by a book that I wrote which was called what will it take to make a woman president? conversations about women leadership in power and the book was inspired by my then eight-year-old daughter Lotus in 2008 after Barack Obama was elected president We were talking about how remarkable it was to have our first African-American president and she turned to me and she asked Why haven't we ever had a woman president? And it really struck me as this question that was interesting to sort of ponder and since I am a journalist Who's known for interviewing well-known people? I set out on this journey to speak to a diversity of thought leaders and political figures and celebrities and artists artists and activists And writers really to try to understand not only why we haven't a woman president But why don't we have women you know in leadership positions in all sectors? you know in all sectors and industry women are in less than 20 percent of leadership positions and you know we're half the population and We seem to be missing from being seated at the table where all these important decisions are being made and You know the way that I like to frame it is this isn't a women's issue This is a matter of diversity. This is a matter of having a reflective democracy and having women As part of the conversations that we need in all of these different sectors and part of the solution that I found was that There is a commonality between the challenges and opportunities that Are preventing women from advancing in women's leadership in all these sectors and some of them are cultural. They're structural Psychological and we need to be having these conversations together and that was part of the inspiration for putting together this panel Is so that we can begin to have some of these conversations And I also want to acknowledge that today is international day of the girl Which I think it's a fantastic day to have this conversation So thank you all for being here and I am thrilled to have this esteemed panel I'm just going to read just very quickly just a little so you get a glimpse of their work But please feel free to find out more about the work that they do online and to support them because this is a really terrific panel of change makers So I guess I'll start Tiffany Schling who's on the end She is a Emmy nominated filmmaker artist founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Her recent film 5050 rethinking the past present and future of women in power was the centerpiece for the first annual 5050 day which had over 11,000 screenings around the globe. They are planning 5050 day for April 2018 So put that on your calendars Cynthia Nemo is the president and CEO of the women's funding network The women's funding network is an association of over a hundred foundations investing in women's equality and Then next is Amy Allison Amy is president of democracy and color an organization that focuses on race Politics and the new American majority that worked to elect president Barack Obama Senator Cory Booker Senator Kamala Harris and other leaders who carry a social justice agenda her new book about women of color and politics is due out in 2018 and Leslie Not least she's a so-cap old-timer Suzanne Beagle is a globally recognized private investor and thought leader in gender lens investing her consultancy Catalyst at large advises a range of institutional impact investors moving capital with a gender lens She is all in for women and girls across her own portfolio and is a longtime member and speaker in the so-cap community So that is a little bit about you know biographically about The work that they do but the first question that I wanted to talk about This isn't just about getting women in leadership positions, but to me these days It's also about how can we empower women to sort of embrace their authentic? Leadership styles and model new paradigms of leadership and power that maybe don't conform to traditional leadership norms So I thought it'd be interesting to ask each of you to talk just you know really briefly realizing that you've probably all had many You know moments along your journey But can each of you just briefly share a moment that you sort of felt like you? Embraced your authentic role as a leader and I guess how that you know connects to the work that you do today So whoever wants our first Tiffany? Sure, I think as a film director I made felt I made films for about 25 years and the first 10 years of my films I would have these amazing men narrate. I had Harrison Ford and Peter Coyote and those kind of voice of God's reading my words and There was a certain point where I was making this film called connected and It it became very sorry. This mic is like really it it I Was making a film about the history of connectedness from the big bane to biology technology to where we're going and what is our desire to connect and In the middle of it my father was dying and I was incredibly close to my dad And I realized that the story of why we need to be connected all the time is a lot about personal connection And I was way too intellectual in the film So I realized I needed to integrate my own personal story Which I had never done in a movie before and I realized that I needed to narrate half the movie Because I was telling my story so it was Peter Coyote and me narrating this movie and at the end It was so satisfying. I have narrated every movie since I'm like why in the hell am I letting men narrate my movies and there There are studies that people take more seriously Male narrations if you watch any trailer documentaries, it's normally men But it was the most liberating thing to a Be vulnerable on a movie and now if you watch any of my films I usually will start with some moment of vulnerability because women are very comfortable with that It's what connects us with people and secondly, I narrate the whole movie and That was a real moment of leadership and owning my voice in my perspective and knowing that more women's voices need to be out There so that that happened about ten years ago, but it was a very exciting moment as a as a filmmaker So that's the example. I'll give So thinking of one moment is hard. I'm sure for each one of you male or female There are a lot of moments that have led us to the places where we are now but I'm thinking Specifically about when I stepped into this role as the president and CEO of the women's funding network. I had Worked at the organization many years ago and had left to do some other things I'd come back to be sort of second in command the COO Which was a really comfortable position for me because I was good at that and the CEO left and the board asked me Interim and I agreed just to kind of keep it all going because I knew how to do it So I did that and they asked me would I also throw my hat in the ring to be the CEO and I said no The reason I said no is I have all of the abilities But capacity-wise it was going to be a stretch for what I had going on for me personally with a young child and other things That I was juggling so I told them I will help you find the right person so we can set this up So can continue to be successful They continued with their search and they kept asking me would I do this and finally Six months into it even with the search going on when they asked me I thought Okay, so wait a minute. I've been doing this and at this point. I'm not just keeping it going. This is my vision 100% of where I want to take this a 30 year old organization that's been around for a long time and needs to recalibrate It's exciting to have that opportunity So why wouldn't I? Say yes at that point and at some point and this may not be considered a very Feminine style of leadership, but we have to take credit for the work. We're doing They were my ideas. It was all my thinking and a lot of it was really hard But I loved it. So I said yes Just the lap now say about that is in reflection of all the years I've been in different leadership positions. It is rarely convenient to step into a leadership role Democracy in color works to create the society we want through electoral politics and that means electing new leaders After last year's election, I thought really deeply about what that meant for me personally as well as the organization and I thought about who showed up and it was black women who voted for Hillary Clinton, for example 97% who actually have the highest vote turnout of any race and gender in this country and a Decades old. I mean black women have only been able to vote since 65 or their rights have been guaranteed only since 1965 but have this really long history of Activism in shaping our democracy so When a fantastic young leader named Stacey Abrams declared her candidacy for governor of Georgia a state that Had not what Democrat had not won since back in Jimmy Carter's day a state that's almost majority people of color and a state that has a Secretary of State that continually removes people off the voter rolls to to shape the result of the election when she Announced that she was running for governor to be the first black woman governor in the 242 years of our nation's history. I knew that I was being called to do something That I hadn't done before. I thought not only are black women Dedicated and the leading edge in terms of those who are most willing to stand for democracy that black women elect women leaders and And so I launched a national campaign called get information like Beyonce's get information I Didn't know who to answer honestly. I Just said this is a national campaign for black women No matter what state you live in to get behind Stacey Abrams and help her become the first black woman governor in the history of our country and we raised and sent her Campaign in the first three days forty two thousand dollars just the first three days Now to have a black woman elected. She has to spend a lot more like twenty million dollars and She would turn the state blue and she's doing it by empowering young people and people of color and 60% of the electorate who will vote with her for her in the primary are black women And so I rose to leadership by calling on fellow black women To rise up into our leadership and I assumed the coordinating orchestrating role But what I didn't anticipate was that women of all races and men Would answer the call to get information So Yeah, like so many of you I was thinking about the different moments where I stepped into different kinds of leadership and The story I'll share is about ten years ago I had built and sold a business in the ed tech space I had been moving my own portfolio After that with a gender lens and a social impact lens I was on the board of a foundation in Los Angeles and rabble rousing This is back around 2001 2002 about why we weren't thinking about the investment side of our Foundation and we were only paying attention to the grant-making side and I met a group of women philanthropists in 2006 Called women donors network and they were completely focused on philanthropy as so many philanthropists are And I said I don't know much about your world, but I'm really focusing more on the investing side And they said please come and join us and we'll teach you about women and girls philanthropy If you'll teach us about investing Now I'm not a shy retiring violet. I went to Wharton Business School I ran a successful business which I exited to a multinational But my investing journey at that point was very personal. I I wasn't seeing myself as a professional investor and When they asked me as a group and they kept sending people over one by one, would you come start this with us? I thought I Don't know enough I'm not an expert. I don't have 20 years in finance I had some imposter syndrome around this and I said you don't really want me to start this and they said you're the perfect person just started because you'll come on a journey with us and You'll you'll share what you know and I at that moment in 2007 I said I'm really excited about stepping into this journey because I can do it in a way Which isn't coming from the place of I have 20 years in finance. It's that I've been on this journey I'm on a path I may be a few steps ahead of some of you and I'm going to embrace those of you that are a few steps ahead of me in particular areas and I was invited I was encouraged And then I've now spent the last ten years inviting and encouraging other people to step in in a very similar way Wherever they come from whatever Expertise and different kinds of expertise we bring And not to feel the imposter syndrome not to feel like I have to know 120% In order for me to say I know enough To be okay with the fact that we're all on a journey and to Learn together But also to be bold and to challenge each other and to challenge each other to write checks and to back each other and support each other and Say Here's the question. I've been meaning to ask but I wasn't sure if I could ask it So that was so pivotal for me to realize that this was my path So now those of you that know me know that everything I do is about gender lens investing And it really started at that moment to be able to say I have permission and I am going to step into this and Now I think about women donors network women's funding network women moving millions and Confluence philanthropy and tonic and all these places which are men and women investing with a gender lens When I track back it was that moment of being invited and encouraged and supported And I get to do that with people all the time That's great. Thank you so much as an and thank you for everybody for sharing your story And the thing I'll say that what Suzanne said is that's what I found in my interviews is that the there's psychological Barriers a lot of time for women, which is why we really do have to encourage And empower women and girls to see themselves as leaders in the first place because there's so many Disempowering messages from the media and otherwise that that tell them otherwise So I really appreciate you sharing that story. So this next question which I'm going to ask to everybody sort of really gets To the heart of you know why we're here today because right now it really feels like the need for women leaders is critical I feel like you know We can maybe all agree if he feels like almost like the fate of like our democracy and our country and the world and Like the planet and humanity is at stake. You know just that So it really does have that sense of urgency And then you match that with the fact that the progress for women's leadership has been painfully slow And it's in fact in some cases regressing when my my book first came out The US the United States was 79th in the world in terms of women in national legislature We are now 104th So we are literally regressing and then and this is according to certain reports at the current Rate of progress it will take more than a hundred years to achieve gender equality And I don't know about you, but I don't feel like we've got that kind of time. So So what I wanted to ask with this group You know What is the the radical thinking? What are what are the innovative? Strategies that we can sort of co-create together that you think will really move the needle to elevate women's leadership And then and then also in the work that you're all doing What are examples what that you where you see things are working or where the sort of new Forms of strategies are beginning to emerge and whoever wants to to begin I can go I've taken this off because it was really uncomfortable That's a form of leadership knowing Okay, well, I also don't want to wait a hundred years I made this film 5050 and was looking back all throughout history on how long social changes takes and couple things first Quota systems, I know it's very controversial, but I really think they work you look at Germany They were trying to get more people on more women on the boards and guess what it was just like America It wasn't happening and then the government passed that it was a law that 20% of boards had to be women and guess what? 20% of boards were women Iceland just last year made it a law that women get paid 50 fit equality in Payment and guess what women are getting paid equally So all of this conversation of you know all these groups and research and discussions about how to make this happen at companies It's not happening and I actually think that Doing you can call them whatever you want because I know pledges, you know You can call them pledges call them quotas you can call them whatever you want But I actually think that companies Need to make a stand and say this is what we're gonna do and we need to all rally behind making that happen and at 5050 day this year In April we're gonna encourage companies schools and homes To make pledges about equality because we need men to want this as much as we do It's not called women's 5050 day It's just called 5050 day because it's about equality and our big goal And I think it is radical is engaging Men in this not as allies. I actually don't I they're like in it with us wherever you fall on the spectrum. They need to they need to know Why this is so important? I also feel like it's getting kind of biblical these days Would you agree with what's happening in our world? And I think women are the ones to get us out of this and a million levels So I think we need to Release the data that shows how much better it is when you have more diversity when you have more women leading And that is personally I feel like a lot of that is obviously we need to have more women running which a lot of them are after Trump But culture I really feel like moves that needles forward to so Bringing all that data to life on how important it is to have diversity and to have women leadership And how much better that is for innovation for the bottom line and for communities. That was a good sound effect. Yeah So I don't know that it's so radical Maybe it's radical to the broader world out there, but maybe not to the group here One piece is to be seeing the commonality between all of the worlds that we're in So how do we being really strategic to say start with the problems we're aiming to solve whether that is Violence against women access to sexual and reproductive health How we're going to handle an aging population and thrive But on the on the sort of social deep social issue side and the and the market opportunity side Start from a strategic place and say, how do we use media? How do we use philanthropy? How do we use the political and legislative tools that we have? How do we use investment? And bring it together from a really strategic place and coordinate and collaborate We don't normally get to hang out with each other But I feel lucky because I am constantly getting to hang out with people who are coming from these very different worlds I'm a boundary jumper. I think Kathy Clark and I she coined a term about being a multilingual leader A couple of years ago, and I think that resonated so much with me because we need to know each other's worlds And support each other. So I am writing checks to African-American women leaders I am using my philanthropy to Support the social norms change that has to happen in order for the investment that I'm doing to take hold I am backing media companies. I just invested in my first media company in Africa Because I really want to see first of all a woman CEO Thrive but also women's voices that she's lifting up and amazing men's voices Who are about seeing a 50-50 world? And so it's it's maybe radical. Maybe it's not so radicals just to be thinking from a place of Empathy collaboration sometimes it's going to also be competitive Be okay with the fact that we have to deal with this duality But about the different places that we're coming from and embrace that and say if I don't pay attention to the fact that somebody just passed Something on Friday that said that companies don't need to provide Access to contraception and their health care policy and I'm investing in Access to contraception I'm not going to be successful. You're not going to be none of us are going to be successful And these problems I scum so with you Tiffany like we do not have time To waste on letting this take a hundred years. We've got to get strategic and collaborative and help each other now So I would say the other thing when we're talking about leadership of women or of girls look in the unexpected places Because it's not just the woman who's running for office. So that is It's the girls who are in high school the girls who are finding themselves in the school-to-prison pipeline It is immigrants who are here. It's today even women who are finding themselves Lifting up their hands and saying wait, so we don't have access to birth control anymore I'm not even sure what year this is that we're living in so a model that's working really well in our world is Initiatives that eight of our members have started these are an eight different Minnesota to Tennessee Where they are getting together groups of young women primarily young women of color who are Experiencing the challenges that we're all talking about wanting to fix. They are not only asking them what the solutions are they're Setting themselves this group up to be advocates. They're connecting them directly to local elected officials to mayors to governors who are sitting down with them So that they can inform the policy These are the people that we're talking about who need to have a voice and you need to be at the decision-making tables It might go without saying I'm not sure because you're from a bunch of different places In the political world the term minority is defunct So if you could stop using the term minority, it would be really radical and helpful to really understand What must happen going forward in the state that we're at right now? 40% of the population is Latino the fastest growing population is Asian-American and There's no majority anybody in California or seven states Two out of every five women in this country are women of color and Under age 18. It's the majority. This is our future for women and I say that to say my radical Suggestion particularly because women of color. I talked about black women, but women of color are more likely by a Pretty big margin to vote for a plethora of progressive issues to support candidates And if we say women it really covers over which women It might not make me popular, but I'm biracial So half of my family's white and half of it's black so I feel completely fine saying this White women voted for Donald Trump and as a group of electoral actors in this democracy 53% of them supported Donald Trump and compared to a statistic like 97% of Black women and Latinos and Asian-American women much much higher than that Race is the great unfinished business for women's movement So I as a biracial person who believes in multiracial and intersectional vision Of what our future in our country is going to look like and in order to be able to Have a politics that looks like us that women's donor network actually measured the number of women who are Holding office from the top of the tickets down to local office as well as women on the ballot And it's extremely low for women of color So my radical suggestion is put women of color in the center of your agenda Put women of color on your leadership teams women of color invite them on the boards fund women of color led Intersectional organizations because not only is that group largely the future and the core of what? the set of policies and transformational movement as By investing in women of color you're bringing up entire Communities and helping to transform democracy and for the last three years I've been researching and writing a book that's coming out next year called she the people the new politics of women of color and What I found is structurally there are structural reasons that women of color are so Underrepresented in our democracy and one of them is that women of color are the most primaried group Who when they run for office? So this is just a little tidbit before the book comes out when we do the numbers We look at most women of color will run as as Democrats. That's a vehicle. I'm not saying it's the best field I'm just saying a vehicle and When they run, they're more likely to be challenged by another Democrat in the primary and when they're challenged they're more likely for people who control the money and control endorsements and control Really the buzz about who deserves to be a leader who looks like a leader who's believable as a leader They're more likely to be challenged even in their own party. So structurally in on the political party And also the organizations that surround fund support find candidates Women of color should be all in the mix as an equal sharing partner if you want to win And I think think look at things like in California our outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer lost White women's vote. I'm not talking about something that's happening somewhere else. I'm talking about California She lost the white women's vote and she was reelected the final time Based on the strength of women of color and that's the same story We saw in different states in different regions. So women of color are absolutely critical and essential And so I just invite us all to figure out how we're gonna all come together. That's the radical transformation I think needs to happen now Well, thanks everybody those are some really radical great ideas that we should follow up on And I know we're getting a little tight on time But I do want to direct a question to each one of you specific to your sectors and just you know We'll try to keep answers relatively short Tiffany I'm gonna just start with you in terms of media because I think sometimes we Don't really fully appreciate the power of the media to shape consciousness and even as like a vehicle for change And also, you know women are underrepresented where I think women hold less than 5% of caught positions in them in the media We need more women filmmakers like you and commentators writers journalists We need our voices our stories our perspectives, you know out there But I wanted to you know just you know succinctly But how do you view the role of media in terms of its ability to shift culture as well as to shift realities on the ground? Okay, I'll say two things is that I'm making a new film about reflective democracy So we definitely need to talk it's going to be a short film That's premiering on 5050 day and I'm gonna work with nine other women film directors of every different background to make one too about reflective democracy so Exactly what she was saying so she just gave this moving powerful case on why we need our The people that represent us bet better reflect who we are, right? So what if I could take her words and turn it into a really powerful thirty second Commercial or spot I didn't want to call it a commercial because it's really I look at these as like releasing the ideas So she's powerful, but she's one person so if we can make a short film That could premiere to millions of people on the same day. How powerful would that be? That's how you really get to move culture I view these little films as vessels for ideas So the more that you can do that I mean if you look at the great movements that have happened so much of it began in stories in films in documentaries, so You know as you were speaking I'm already just thinking about You know this film I'm working on which is a lot of what you're talking about so I think that media And I saw the Gates Foundation just released something for the International Girls Day Did anyone see that? It's a short little film about Girl and energy and they embedded in it some really startling facts about girls Being sexually harmed not being as cool, but they embedded it in such an inspiring powerful short film In a lot of ways you can move very heavy ideas Around more easily if you embed them in a powerful story or a moving short film So for me it's a very exciting way to move ideas to help the people get elected to kind of move consciousness Enough so that when you're in the ballot when you're about to vote you've been surrounded with the ideas on why it's important And Amy I want to direct this just next question to you Which is I feel like right now we can't really afford any divides among women and yet I think we have to acknowledge there is this bifurcation in the movements of women around me So you know and I don't think we as women have figured that out yet So, you know, where do you see the opportunities for us to kind of unite to move a common agenda forward in terms of leadership across race? I think that's our That is our challenge Despite the fact that there's fires burning things up and that White House is a chaos I actually have a lot of hope and faith that we can come together, but it starts with telling the truth And I would like to see a fundamental shift in what was considered the women's movement, which is a narrow narrowly defined set of mainly work equal pay and You know abortion rights issues which are important necessary but not sufficient and just add the term justice On to everything and open up Instead of having a women's movement have a movement of women and emigrate immigrant rights and and Muslim human rights and The issues of poverty and the issues of gentrification all are issues that women are Intimately Connected to and if you go on the ground and you look at organizations who are doing the transformative work in a country Many of them are led by women. They may not be the elected officials But they are the leaders in articulating and moving our country forward and really it is women who Many times are showing up to do the hard work of moving or expanding our democracy and holding a vision of What we could be as a society? so it may seem like just a Change of order of words, but a movement of women would give us an opportunity to connect deeply on justice issues on a broader Progressive agenda and it gives us something to talk about about who's not At the table leading this movement of women who's not being represented Because if we make a table and if you think of your own organizations if everyone's not at the table there's actually something wrong and That for us to be able to tell the truth about Building organizations either private companies or foundations or C3s or C4s or packs like I run or agencies Everyone needs to be at the table that defines where money goes and what the priorities are and who matters and so one very important way for us to come together as a movement of women is to Transform from the inside out the organizations In which you are members Who you fund who you relate to and to seek out? organizations that are led by Diverse sets of women who articulate in intersectional politics, which is I believe our future a very complex broad range of justice Agenda and that gives us something common that we can talk about When I say race is the great unfinished business For women. I mean let's organize conversations around how to share power in a way that prepares us to win for the future Thank you Suzanne you're obviously a you know incredible thought leader and you've been working in gender lens investing a long time For you, what are you seeing in terms of new forms of leadership that's emerging in investment sphere and venture capital and impact investing I? Am so lucky because I'm scanning the field and working with so many of you in this audience and people on the around the globe and seeing collaborations Coming forth in the impact investing sphere and the mainstream investing sphere in a remarkable way So Chris Anderson is sitting here from in faith They're building a portfolio around Really addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and instead of just standing and declaring Hey, we're announcing a new fund. They brought together a diverse set of actors from within the investment sphere and within So many different realms to collaborate over the course of a period of time To say how do we do this better? How do we we're not gonna say that we know exactly how this works we're gonna we're aiming to solve a really intractable problem and We're gonna need a lot of different kinds of intelligence and expertise. That's one example on Friday I was lucky enough to be part of a collaboration that I've helped bring forward on access to sexual and reproductive health in the United States And there's a another one that's launching around Latin America But this again is bringing together a really disparate set of funders policy people Investors to say how do we collaborate to first understand the basis of what we're really trying to solve for And have diverse voices in that room and then let's say where can philanthropy be best used? Where do we need to work legislatively where we need to be? Applying investment or blended capital so that collaboration was led by a very bold woman leader It's got men and women coming together to say this these are not women's issues But how do we collaborate to form a funder investor collaborative? So instead of I'm gonna get to this deal first and I'm gonna make a killing here first It's how do we do this well together and how do we learn? there's a Another friend of mine who's launched something called she oh how many of you have heard of this or part of it This is about really turning venture capital on its head and saying let's have a Thousand women contribute a thousand dollars each Into a pot, but every single person is an activator and we nominate together The ventures that are gonna get investment and every single venture that gets invested in gets to say what they need on a Regular basis not just once and every single person who puts their money into this fund can Commits to being an activator and to collaborate with each other to support each one of those ventures And so it's and it's got a different set of dynamics and expectation and invitation To say maybe not all venture capital needs to look the same And maybe we need a different set of people who get to be at the table It's not to say I mean Vicki is quite radical. She will say the whole system is broken and She would just as soon get rid of a significant part of the venture capital space I am embracing the diversity the incredible diversity of these different flavors of capital And so I'm just we're just about to publish a study at Wharton Business School Wharton Social Impact Initiative of 58 funds that are investing with a gender lens Across the world with different kinds of lenses and when I asked each fund manager, are you up for collaborating? I know you're all competing for capital, but are you up for collaborating and co-investing with each other and making what you're doing visible? And we'll create a safe space for that conversation about how are we doing this everybody was up for But it's a power of the invitation and the power of it's kind of creating a safe space and saying I'm gonna celebrate the fact that you're raising a fund and I'm raising a fund And that we might be going after the same deal But to do this in a different way and so I I could give you 50 different examples from within the SoCAP community Where I'm seeing really remarkable new forms of leadership and collaboration again from women extraordinary women and also Extraordinary men you and coin this phrase he for she's and I go around and a lot of you might see me hugging Men and women at the conference and saying you're one of the he for she's that I really love being in partnership with And I just think that's also part of the picture is how are we embracing women's leadership? But also how are we embracing men's leadership in this as well? Absolutely a hundred percent agree with that and men want to be part of this conversation We have to you know, allow them to bite them in Cynthia. Just quickly to get to you in terms of You know you work in philanthropy which really spans across all sectors So what do you think what is the bold thing that you think needs to happen to fund and support the types of leadership? That we've been discussing here today We have to redefine what success looks like so that with the philanthropy the funding is going toward More women in the media more women running for office Any of the things that you're hearing about equal pay reducing violence against women which even in the US affects one in three women in her lifetime It's going to look different than maybe the traditional funding landscape that many of you in the room are used to if you're here as investors Okay, so what that means is to really have the solutions that we need We're changing people's minds. We're changing how they think and how they behave It's hard work. It takes a long time and it costs a lot of money That's why we have philanthropy and in my world. That's why we have women's philanthropy There are many many women who are either giving and we have organizations like women moving millions Which are about women who are giving at least one million or more For gender equality or we have women's foundations, which are part of our network where these women are putting 100% of their foundations assets towards gender equality So how do you measure that kind of change? It is not as straightforward as Taking an issue like the fact that in the world 62 million adolescent girls are not in school And yet education is a critical strategy to breaking cycles of poverty So you can build the schools and that's important. We need those If you're in a country or an area where girls may not be able to go to the school because The walk to school is dangerous. They could be raped. They could be abducted Anything could happen or they can't go to school because they're menstruating and that's not a thing you do You don't leave your home if that's happening or you don't have supplies Or you can't go to school because your number one Role in your family no matter what your age is if you're a girl is to make money To find a way to care for the family to how you're gonna get that girl to school You need to fund the organizations that are going to those locations and working to make these shifts in culture and Behavior Redefining what it means to be involved to have a voice and to show up in places like that. This work is happening around the world There are many bright spots. You just have to open your eyes and look for them It's not as straightforward as a lot of investors would like it may not be about the number of people who showed up every day But it's everything about who's being asked for a solution and are the communities who are experiencing it part of creating a New way So another example in the state of Mississippi, which for a long time was in the US had the second highest rate of teen pregnancy Which there are a lot of challenges that that raises one of them is how much that cost the state as far as economic power a Third of teen moms will not go on to get her high school diploma So the Women's Foundation of Mississippi spent time Talking to girls and boys teenagers to find out what might they need now This is a state where sex sexuality education is abstinence only so what it was actually needed was medically accurate information about how your body works in In a safe place where teens could access it So it took a lot of time to do that in a place that was not so receptive to having those kinds of conversations And what they ended up creating was a website called fact not fiction calm. It's fantastic. It's for teens male and female to be able to go online Ask questions get information and be prepared so they can make decisions that are right for them It was so successful that beyond the state of Mississippi It's being accessed throughout the US and in other countries because the need was so great and because teens were involved and saying Here's what's needed They are drastically reducing the rates of unplanned teen pregnancy. It's just one example It's important to have this kind of funding that we think or I think in this world people consider radical It's not in the world of women's funding. It's how we do our work and it's how we make our impact Thank you so much and I know it looks like that we've run out of time And I hope that I know we didn't have time for questions that you can feel free to come up to us and ask us If you do have questions And I hope follow up on all the incredible work that everybody on this panel does and the types of organizations that they mentioned I also wanted to let you know that I am launching a platform called what will it take movements to ignite and empower a new generation of Women leaders, which will we hope to continue to have events and panels just like this I mean to be sort of a connective tissue to uplift all the voices and organizations that are working to advance women's leadership So I would love it if you would if you were interested go to whatwillittake.com and sign up to our mailing list to find out about more Conversations like these as well as to please share what you're interested in what type of resources you'd like to see and about your work So that we can help spread the word. So I would like to thank this incredible panel For all of their insights and you know to all of you for for coming. So thank you so much