Women's Forum Global Meeting 2024

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Mona Sinha

Equality Now

Global Executive Director

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S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an organization that campaigns for legal and systemic change around the world to address violence and discrimination against women and girls. For 25 years, Mona has leveraged her corporate experience to launch, lead or advise over 90 mission-aligned organizations to create a gender-equal world. She is the former Board Chair of Women Moving Millions and serves on the Executive Council of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, as well as the Advisory Board of Gucci CHIME. Creating inclusive communities is at the center of her strategic approach, which she believes is the key to unlocking sustainable organizational growth. Mona is the Executive Producer of 2024 Oscar nominated documentary To Kill a Tiger, which speaks to male allyship being critical in supporting survivors of sexual violence. Equality Now serves as Impact Partner to the film. She was Executive Producer of Disclosure, an award-winning Netflix documentary on the representation of trans people in entertainment, which premiered at Sundance in 2020. She has produced Sell.Buy.Date (premiered at SXSW, 2022) and My Name is Andrea (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, 2022). She is also an Executive Producer of the 73rd Tony Awards nominee for Best Play and finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, What the Constitution Means to Me (2019). Mona has been recognized for her leadership by Forbes 50 over 50:Impact, the New York Bar Association, Columbia Business School, Smith College, Children’s Hope India, CARE USA, Modern High School (Kolkata), Women’s eNews, Breakthrough, Gloria Steinem, and Apne Aap. In 2015, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an award presented annually to US citizens whose accomplishments and service in their field are cause for celebration.

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Plenary
Oct 23, 2024
7:55 AM8:20 AM
Online

Fuelling healthy democracies: What role for women?

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A healthy democracy is a society and a system in which all citizens can express their full potential and contribute to fair progress. When women participate in the workforce, economies grow, and participation of women in politics increases cooperation, foster better relationship with all segments of society and long-term peace. In this session we will explore how meaningfully involving women in the economy and governance creates healthier and better functioning societies based on democracy and genuine representation.
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