In what way do you work for women’s power and equality? What do you think is the number one action we as a society can take (e.g. affirmative action)?

I’m currently not involved in politics, as a child it was certainly my aspiration and I think I got to a place where I
don’t believe it is the government’s responsibility to take care of people. I believe it’s the people responsibility to take
care of people and the government can provide infrastructure to do so. I felt like I can be more powerful or better
useful in the world if I apply my energy to take care of the people and the flock that I was given and shape their
capacity. that I’ve been given to help people. Currently, I’m not involved in politics but that is my belief that people
have the responsibility to help people and empower to help other people. The way I have been doing that is 1) within
my workspace and ability to have a real large group of both friends and professionals who I get to play mentor to.
I’ve got two girls and the youngest is 12 years old they have been mentoring since they were 10 to teenagers to
college graduates with young professionals in their own workspace to my mothers bestfriend who is 65 years old. I

feel like I have been blessed with variety of opportunities and mentoring at the same time when I’m mentoring
someone I get mentored back its completely a mutual thing. 2) It was in my industry particularly the advertising
space I was able to be a family member part of the #seeher movement I’ve been very passionate about and the seeher
movement is if you can’t see her you can’t be her and so much that happens within the media. You have TV and the
media industry and the advertising industry where you continue to represent woman and cast woman in roles
that stories are told in the story tellers point of view. It could be flipped it is always women who tell the story and
that might not be casted and in the light of diversity they can be reflected so in our industry we believe woman ads
agency did you consider to cast or bid a female director? Did you look at the production crew? Did you look if there
was a female wardrobe? Did you look at the diversity or people who are gonna tell you stories for advertising?
Therefore TV production or whatever the story tellers should be diversed as there could be. We continue to tell woman
there role in the hospital be a nurse. 95% of the worlds nurse are woman you become the product of the story of the
you have been told, women are sexy objects, or what I deeplycare about in STEM are nerdy white boys dropped out of
IVY league schools you’re never gonna get the Latin population or a young African American boy to see himself
because he only sees himself as a basketball player because advertise in TV and media projected this is what cool
kids, this what you should look like in the world and they start to pursure these traits in other roles. It’s very
important initivate in the advertising marketing community we have to make a difference and also to tackle the
lack of diversity in STEM which I’m frankly passionate about my company greatly believes in diversity in
STEM, the lack of engineering talent and lack of diversity. We go and tell stories we find the 12 year old girls,
Asian girl who is writing her own alzihemer for her grandmother or the 16 year old girl who is passionate about
robotics changing how our products are changing in motels, the African American 24 year old boy who developed
his own company and sold it to SONY and we tell those stories and put it out in the world through media system
where they were actually see and discover their fit. What is one action we can take to society the first question you
asked was self awareness. You’re highly selfaware and you listen and told your feelings and suppose to do
something act on it and do it. I was doing some work in the embassy for the women and technology in the embassy
where they brought a young woman from South Africa brought over my company to be mentored, a great
relationship and we knew instantly the day that I met her I knew we were knowing each other for something bigger
and mentorship our mentorship. Couple of years later she brought the U.S. embassy to South Africa, South Africa
said we can’t afford to bring the girls to U.S. but we can afford the girls to be brought in South Africa it comes
within international women month. I did that for 5 years now and spending the months I got to visit different
countries and work on different initiative and one day I would bring sustainability to South Africa and I met
these beautiful women in all different ages, starting from age 12-85 who were taking care of six children of the
orphan children academics in South Africa these woman natuarally picked up the pieces and so many of 25-45
who have gone missing their academics, the burden of raising their children in their situation. I spent a day with
them and slowly started to open up this one woman 85 years old very beautiful I asked if anybody could help you
what would you ask for. She said my children could achieve their matriculate there would be nothing they would be
able to do they would have every opportunity in the world. The education system in South Africa is up to fourth or
fifth grade, the teachers, the teaching system are not beyond fourth grade, they can’t teach beyond fourth or fifth
grade. So, I thought about it one day piercing eyes speaking through my heart one day I came back to the U.S. 6
months and I never lost those words on the run trying to be myself stay self awareness. I heard myself a voice you
need to build a school for these children, they need to be able to do it on their own, you need to go to school in the
long run. I was like no I don’t build schools Oprah Winfrey build schools the more I ran the more the voice said I
need you to build a school, you need to build a school in South Africa. At the end of the run I called a gentlemen in
Mosiac who I met I said mayor there’s a voice that is telling me we need to build a school in mosaic children in your
care. He said your calling me to plan to build a school we are so busy we can’t take it off the ground. We are so
busying to make housing, job, education, vocational training for women to have lives with their children. But, he
said if you think you can tackle school I can work with the municipality here and the land but if you can get us
off the ground nobody in South Africa will ever give money if it’s already built. I can get the support once its real
but if there’s only a piece of dust on the ground because the money is just squandered. So we go back and year one
was the land, foundation and aligning the children and teaching and the staff. Year two we started with a two
room classroom and now we have a beautiful two story building. In the township of Ecahin. We are educating 250
students on a daily national school curriculum which means these children in the township have the ability the
same of whit africans across the streets. We change the story and said you have the same thing as they have now.
So now its up to you how are you going to try giving you everything was so easy in our society to point your
finger at the government or wait for their hands out to say it’s not fair or not just. You have schools just like theirs

you have teachers who are trained it really works on the younger children. Our goals were different for the older
children its difficult to go back at 10, 11 or 12 teaching the same way as a 4 year old or 5 year old. We have 250
children so far who are successfully being educated. If I was in politics I could have tired to influence the U.S.
politics to have more policies in local South African so the politics can get it done. For this to be done we needed
somebody who can do it and going back to question number 1 just take action. You know when something needs to
be done do it and don’t be fearful but the reprocessial will come from your heart or if you feel like you need to get it,
get your resources to get it done,. So it wasn’t me who got it done it was him who found the resources and I was just
the hand only because I was self aware and willing to take action.