Condoleezza Rice Women Who Inspire Lecture Series
In 2015, SAIS Women Lead launched its flagship Women Who Inspire lectures, a series of conversations using the power of example to motivate students to become pioneers in their chosen occupations. Bringing two to three exceptional high-profile women each year to explore different facets of leadership, the program features conversations with trailblazing women from a variety of career and life paths.
The series was started and is moderated by Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, herself an inspirational leader who was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice among many other accomplished posts throughout her career in government.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Shirin Tahir-Kheli
Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute
shirintk@outlook.com
Previous Speakers
Sheila Johnson, American businesswoman, co-founder of BET, and CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, April 2023
Fatima Gailani, Afghan political leader and women's rights activist, November 2022
Jean Bennet, F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology at University of Pennsylvania, March 2022
Obi Felton, Founder and CEO at Flourish Labs, October 2021
Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor and Founder of CosmosID, Inc., November 2020
Gloria Estefan, singer and songwriter, May 2018
Helene Cooper, New York Times Pentagon correspondent, October 2017
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, May 2017
Bestselling author Anne Hillerman, April 2017
Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, May 2016
Publisher Tina Brown CBE, October 2016
The Honorable Barbara Barrett, December 2015