"Geena Davis created an Institute on Gender and Media that is doing fabulous work to demonstrate the depiction (or lack thereof) of women and is helping to find ways to fix that."

Geena Davis,
Oscar winning Actress, Founder, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

Recommended by:
Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin
Vice President, Tetra Tech

"a rockstar femme!"

Nicole Patrice DeMember
Nicole Patrice DeMember is an internationally known entrepreneur, investor and advisor that works with high profile startups and NGOs.
Founder of Indais, Toi, GrooveTickets and Effigy Studios

Recommended by:
Kym McNicolas
TV Host/Anchor/ Journalist

"Rockstar ceo of a great PR firm that manages mid-level enterprise companies. brilliant! Always helping everyone to succeed. I don't know if there is enough time in the day to share all of what she does to promote ALL of those who aspire to achieve success, especially women. She truly leads by example in hiring, promoting, and inspiring an incredibly cohesive, successful, and passionate team. She is one of the most incredible unknown people in silicon valley but to all who know her, they feel blessed.
She always has the attitude of, "how can i help you?'"

Susan Thomas
CEO, 10Fold Communications
Founder, President & CEO Trainer Communications
Susan Thomas has provided marketing communications and public relations services for technology companies for more than 20 years.

Recommended by Kym McNicholas
TV Host/ Anchor/ Journalist

Jan Singer,
CEO, Victoria's Secret

"Jan always had your back, even when you didn't know. She created space for you to be successful, she gave you tools to be a great leader, she was honest, she called you on your s**t but everything she did was for you and the best (or worst) was you didn't know / understand /appreciate until she was gone.."

Recommended by:
Susi Proudman
VP Global Footwear Materials, Nike

Recommended
"For mentoring me, and so many others, proactively, consistently, generously, giving of her time, her network, her lessons learned, all while becoming Vice Chair of GE. Always available, always humble, always curious, always supportive"

Beth Comstock
Vice Chair, GE

Recommended by
by Hannah Jones
Chief Sustainability Officer & VP The Innovation Accelerator, Nike

Bela Kapur- recommended for
"Her role modeling of compassion in leadership"

Recommended by:
Alaa Murabit
United Nations

Nominated by Dina Kaplan:
"for believing in me and changing my life with our first revenue deal for my first company"

Geraldine Laybourne:
co-founder of women's programming network, Oxygen Media.
American serial entrepreneur in media and technology, referred to as "one of the most powerful women in television", and leader of the team "that created Nickelodeon in the 80's and 90's"

"Her book and her speeches did a LOT for all women's careers"

Recommended by:
Eliane Fiolet
Co-Founder, Ubergizmo

Rania Hoteit
Co-Founder and CEO, ID4A

Recommended by:
Rania Hoteit (self-nominated- as she has helped herself become a leader- applause and thank you to Rania!)

Lisa Stone
Founder of BlogHer

Recommended by:
Wendy Lea
CEO Cintrifuse, angel investor, board member

"Michael was recommended to me by my book agent as "one of the few people in LA you can really trust". She was right. He is a very good man. He has been my lawyer for 5 years now, and time and again went out of his way to help me and my career probono - as there's never enough support for women in film.
Thank you Michael"

Michael Golland, Esq
Hamrick and Evans Law
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Wendy Dent
Founder/CEO, Cinemmerse and RecommendedByWomen.com

"Raju has impressed me on two levels. First, he is always respectful and reliable, and follows up. Secondly, he is one of the very best and most vocal advocates for gender equality that I've seen. He is always sharing on social media great links about the importance of diversity, and it really made a difference to me feeling this isn't just a struggle by women for women. He has encouraged me and it made a difference. Thank you Raju."

Raju Narisetti:
Senior Vice-President of NewsCorp - about to be CEO of Gizmodo
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader alum
Recommended by Wendy Dent:
Founder/CEO, Cinemmerse & RecommendedByWomen
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader