Against the Odds: Educating Girls Globally
Streamed live on Mar 31, 2016
Speakers:
Irina Bokova, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Sakena Yacoobi, CEO, Afghan Institute of Learning; Co- Founder and Vice President, Creating Hope International; WISE Prize for Education Laureate
Discussants from the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI):
Monica Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership, HGSE; Faculty Co-Chair, ALI
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Chair and Director, ALI
Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program and of the Global Education Innovation Initiative, HGSE; Faculty Co-Chair, ALI
This forum will examine the challenges that remain for girls around the world to access a high quality education that empowers them, and the work that activists, teachers, governments, and intergovernmental organizations are advancing to address these challenges. Yacoobi will discuss the constraints that girls and women face to receiving an education in Afghanistan, and highlight the work that she and other social entrepreneurs have advanced, under the most challenging conditions, to support the educational opportunities of girls against the odds.
She is an award-winning social innovator who has devoted her life to creating educational opportunities for girls and women. Bokova will address the same issues from the perspective of the international development community, and of UNESCO specifically. After these presentations, there will be a panel discussion with Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative faculty.
Irina Bokova, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Sakena Yacoobi, CEO, Afghan Institute of Learning; Co- Founder and Vice President, Creating Hope International; WISE Prize for Education Laureate
Discussants from the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI):
Monica Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership, HGSE; Faculty Co-Chair, ALI
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Chair and Director, ALI
Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program and of the Global Education Innovation Initiative, HGSE; Faculty Co-Chair, ALI
This forum will examine the challenges that remain for girls around the world to access a high quality education that empowers them, and the work that activists, teachers, governments, and intergovernmental organizations are advancing to address these challenges. Yacoobi will discuss the constraints that girls and women face to receiving an education in Afghanistan, and highlight the work that she and other social entrepreneurs have advanced, under the most challenging conditions, to support the educational opportunities of girls against the odds.
She is an award-winning social innovator who has devoted her life to creating educational opportunities for girls and women. Bokova will address the same issues from the perspective of the international development community, and of UNESCO specifically. After these presentations, there will be a panel discussion with Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative faculty.
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