Vital Voices Podcast

Dr. Rouba Mhaissen is ​a Syrian-Lebanese economist, activist, and community mobilizer on a mission. As a 2019 #GlobalLeadershipAwards honoree, she ​is the Founder and Director of Sawa for Development and Aid​ (founded in 2011)​, a non-profit organization that supports Syrian refugees​ in Lebanon​, and Sawa Foundation UK, that supports forced migrants in Europe and the Middle East​.   Listen in as...

Vital Voices' President and CEO sits down with Saskia Nino de Rivera, just in time for Mother's Day. Saskia tells the story of her journey to activism, and how motherhood drives her to use her #powertoempower.   To learn more about Vital Voices, visit www.vitalvoices.org Invest in women, improve the world.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: B...

An expert in renewable energy, Habiba Ali's Sosai Energy provides a variety of clean and renewable energy options to rural Nigerian communities living off the grid. In this episode, Vital Voices' President Alyse Nelson sits down with Habiba after the 2019 Global Leadership Awards to discuss Habiba's next steps, goals, and what happens when women are brought to the table to lead their communities....

During the VVEngage convening in Boston, Massachusetts, Vital Voices' President, Alyse Nelson sat down with Former Peruvian Prime Minister, Beatriz Merino to discuss her journey to leadership and the ways she uses her power to empower the next generation of leaders.   To learn more about Vital Voices, visit www.vitalvoices.org Invest in women, improve the world.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin Mac...

Vital Voices' President Alyse Nelson sits down with Robin Leeds, a senior political strategist, organizer and advocate with more than 30 years of work in the government, labor, business and non-profit sectors on the gender pay gap, and what companies can do to eliminate the wage gap once and for all.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attr...

Former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley chats women and politics with Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson as she moderates a panel on using your power to empower with designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg; media mogul and founder of Women in the World, Tina Brown; Chessy Prout, author of "I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope"; and Danielle Saint-Lôt, Ambassador at large for Women’s Empowerment for the Re...

Join Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Laura Liswood, Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders, and Brigitte Dzogbenuku, candidate for Vice President in Ghana, to discuss women in politics and how women can lead in the political sphere.    Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/l...

Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson sits down with Vital Voices Network women Kah Walla and Tamara Abdel-Jaber to discuss why it's time for a woman to be President of the World Bank Join our Campaign for a Woman World Bank President at https://www.vitalvoices.org/worldbankwomen/   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://c...

Join Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Kim Campbell, the first woman Prime Minister of Canada, who joined Vital Voices on our first ever VV Engage in-person gathering in Florence, Italy.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with VV Lead fellows Daniela Pogliani, Executive Director of Conservación Amazónica, and Sheeba Sen, founder of Alaap, on a recent trip to Mumbai for a VVLead Peer-to-Peer Exchange.   Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Join Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Kiran Bir Sethi, founder of the Riverside School and one of our 2018 Global Leadership Award Honorees, on a recent trip to India for our VVLead program.      Music Credit: On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with the five finalists for the first-ever WE Empower UN SDG Challenge, a global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.   The finalists were:  - Habiba Ali, Founder, Managing Director, and CEO of Sosai Renewable Energies (Nigeria) - Marta del Rio Villaneuva, Founder and CEO...

Vital Voices COO Alvin Allgood sits down with Alex Prout, one of our 2018 Voices of Solidarity honorees and chair of the Vital Voices Solidarity Council, to discuss Alex's work fighting gender-based violence, his experience advocating for his daughter, Chessy, and how men and boys can become allies in the fight against sexual assault. Alex is the father of Chessy Prout, author of the book I Have t...

Happy Giving Tuesday! In this episode, Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson sits down with three incredible women who are using their power to empower and leveraging their platform to give back: Jennifer Silberman, Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Target and President of the Target Foundation; Maria Gabriela Hoch, Founder of the Vital Voices chapter in Argentina; and Drew Ginsburg, Founder a...

Join Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Samantha Inesta, a Global Freedom Exchange fellows and Founder and Executive Director of BeaSister2aSister, an aftercare program for survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.

Join Vital Voices President and CEO Alyse Nelson as she interviews actress, activist, and Vital Voices Board Member Sally Field at the launch party for her new memoir "In Pieces". Special thank you to Donna and Mack McLarty for hosting the event at their home.  

In honor of World Refugee Day, take a listen to Vital Voices President & CEO Alyse Nelson as she sits down with Syrian-Lebanese economist, activist, and community mobilizer Rouba Mhiassen, a VVLead Fellow and Founder of Sawa for Development and Aid. (2018)    

Vital Voices partner and longtime FGM/C activist, Oumie Sissokho sits down with Vital Voices Human Rights staff in Sierra Leone. (2018)    

Listen in as Vital Voices President & CEO, Alyse Nelson, sits down with 2011 Global Leadership Awards Honoree Sunitha Krishnan, a fierce activist combating commercial sexual exploitation in India. (2018)        

Listen in as Vital Voices President, Alyse Nelson, sits down with 2015 Global Leadership Awards Honoree Kah Walla. Kah is a leader in public live, an entrepreneur, and an activist out of Cameroon. (2018)        

Listen in as Vital Voices President, Alyse Nelson, sits down with VVLead Fellow, Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD, Nadya Okamoto. In addition to being a former HERlead Fellow, Nadya recently finished a hard fought, historic campaign for Cambridge, MA City Council. (2017)        

Vital Voices President & CEO, Alyse Nelson, sits down with VVLead Fellow, CEO of AnnieCannons, Inc, Jessica Hubley. (2017)        

On Sept. 26, the Saudi Arabian government formally announced that it would lift a ban on women driving. One of the trailblazing activists who helped spark the movement to overturn the ban is longtime Vital Voices Network leader and 2012 Global Leadership Award Honoree, Manal al-Sharif. Listen in on this exclusive throwback podcast with Manal that followed her iconic 2011 arrest.

Vital Voices President & CEO, Alyse Nelson, sits down with VVLead Ambassador, activist & filmmaker, Samar Minallah Khan.