 Every two years, the McCulloch Centre hosts a conference on a specific global issue where we bring experts from around the world together to discuss the issue and come up with policy suggestions to address it. We wanted to convey to the students and the faculty on campus that there's a set of issues that are significant in the world today. In this year, the topic of the Global Conference of the Global Challenges Conference was global local inequalities, social change for sustainable communities. We wanted people to be aware of inequalities and wanted people to be aware of possible solutions. We chose that topic because the increase in inequality at the local level and global level has been substantial and clearly a cause of worry and concern for people around the world. Both perspectives, the local perspective and the more global perspective, how those inequalities express themselves. We focused on three tracks, education and income-generating opportunities for women. Food security is the second one. In the last one, we named built environment which covers housing infrastructure access to electricity. At the conference, we got exposed to many social entrepreneurs. We talked a lot about the global challenges that we are facing. We talked about inequality specifically and it always seemed very insurmountable to me and I was like, what could I possibly do? And they showed me that actually individuals can have a change. It can actually be me and us because the people that came to the conference were alums, were people that were in the same spot as we were today. Actually seeing people who are doing these things right now, the process, who they're helping, how they got there, you know, the obstacles they face. But when I'm trying to think of like strong women that I want to become, I think of the conference. I think of all the women I met and how smart they were and how fearless they were. So that was really, really exciting, motivating, inspiring. Sitting there and listening to these women talk, it made me realize that there's so much that I can go out and do by myself. And then sharing how they struggle, the obstacles they faced and the lessons they have learned. It can happen no matter what your age, no matter when you got out of college, you know. And that Mount Holyoke really does prepare us and give us the skills to go out and change the world in that way. We're creating a movement where people can all be leaders in changing the way the world functions. I think we've sparked something. We've hit a nerve and that's very exciting to see.