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SUMMARY:Alyse Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Alyse Nelson is president and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. As the co-founder\, she has been with the organization for more than 28 years\, also serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Under Nelson’s leadership\, Vital Voices has directly served nearly 50\,000 women leaders across 188 countries. Several of these leaders will join Nelson as part of a panel on Vital Voices’ work as part of Chautauqua’s opening week on “Icons and Instigators: Women Who Change the World.”   \nPreviously\, Nelson served as deputy director of the State Department’s Vital Voices Global Democracy Initiative and worked with the President’s Interagency Council on Women at the White House. She is a regular speaker on leadership and global women’s issues\, having spoken before the United Nations General Assembly\, the Clinton Global Initiative\, Fortune Most Powerful Women\, Oxford Student Union\, Forbes 30/50 and Women in the World\, among others. She has conducted leadership training with women at the Central Intelligence Agency\, DFID\, the UK Development Agency\, Fortune 1000 companies and at numerous conferences.   \nNelson is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as an official Observer for the World Bank’s We-fi Initiative for Women Entrepreneurs. She serves on advisory boards of Chime for Change and Global Citizen. Fortune named Nelson one of the 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter and she was featured as one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Shaking the World. She is a recipient of the 2022 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award\, and\, in 2018\, Apolitical named her one of the most influential people in global gender policy. She was also honored in 2015 with a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award.  \nNelson is the author of the best-selling book Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World\, and the editor of Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower. She has been featured in various international and national media. She holds a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/alyse-nelson/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Week One (June 27–July 4),Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Featured Events
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