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Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

Posted on January 1, 2023January 13, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

It was gigantic and staring at me. Everyone around seemed as mesmerized by it as I was: an eye, wide open. It was staring at the sky, too, and it covered most of the steps of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at the far end of the oblong Roosevelt Island on the East River, an unlikely urban cable car stop away from Manhattan. In the background, lurking in the shadows, stood the 39-story United Nations building, proud and self-confident. 

In that park, at the bottom of the steps that morning of November 28, 2022, every spoken word and every single stare were targeted at the United Nations, at the United Nations and Iran. 

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Gender Issues, Mujeres, New York, Politics, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Antonio Guterres, Christine Lagarde, Commission on the Status of Women, CSW, Delphine Schrank, Eyes On Iran, For Freedoms, Four Freedoms Park, Franklin Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Jîna Mahsa Amini, JR, Leymah Gbowee, Malala Yousafzai, Masha Amini, Melanne Verveer, Michelle Obama, Nika Shahkarami, Oprah Winfrey, Roosevelt Island, Shirin Neshat, United Nations, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Women Life Freedom, Zainab Salbi

Letter to Angella Nazarian

Posted on March 3, 2021March 10, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

Letter to Angella Nazarian
On the eve of Visionary Women Summit 2021 – https://www.visionarywomen.com
(Quotes below, unless in italics, are invented, and the attribution to people is purely fictional)

Dear Angella;

Do you remember the cobblestone streets of Coyoacán in Mexico City, a far cry from the busy double deck jammed highways that drive across the megalopolis? I am sure you remember the first time you pushed the double green doors of the Blue House—Casa Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo. I do, and I have returned there so often.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Gender Issues, Marion Naufal, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Africa, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alaa Salah, Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Angella Nazarian, Aretha Franklin, Assouline, Beijing UN Conference on Women, Betsabee Romero, Biden Administration, casa azul, Casa Estudio, Cheek to Cheek, Christane Amanpour, Condoleeza Rice, condoleezza rice, Creative Couples, Diego rivera, Ella Fitzgerald, Frida Kahlo, Hillary Clinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Janacek, Janet Yellen, Joe biden, kamala harris, Kandisky, Katalin Kariko, Katie Couric, Leymah Gbowee, Madeleine Albright, Marie Curie, Marie-Agathe Charpagne, marionnillustrations, Martine Assouline, Mary Alice Williams, McKinsey, Melanne Verveer, Miró, Museo Frida Kahlo, Nancy Pelosi, Nickolas Muray, Nobel Peace Prize, Noguchi, O'Keefe, Pat Mitchell, Picasso, Pioneers of the Possible, Tehuana Dress, Tracy K. Smith, Trotzky, Twakkol Karman, Visionary Women, Viva la Vida, Women's Forum, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Women's Forum Mexico

The Vital Power of Youth and Words

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Vital Power of Youth and Words: 22-year-old Poetess Amanda Gorman to Perform at Joe Biden’s Inauguration

A Rock, a River, a Tree 
Hosts of species long departed
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here

Maya Angelou, On The Pulse of Morning

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, Marion Naufal, Uncategorized, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs
Tagged Al Gore, Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Assouline, Barack Obama, Barbara Bush, Bill Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Gayle Kabaker, George Bush, Harvard, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, JFK, Joe biden, Malala Yousafzai, Martine Assouline, Maya Angelou, On the pulse of a morning, Poetry, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tipper Gore, United Nations, Vital Voices, Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment

Women Have Power: Let’s Hear Them

Posted on November 3, 2020January 18, 2022by JC Agid2 Comments

Women Have Power: Let’s Hear Them
A conversation with Alyse Nelson, President and co-Founder of Vital Voices for Global Partnership. Co-editor of Vital Voices: 100 Women to Empower Other Women (Assouline)

Forget for a moment Joe Biden’s victory as President-elect and Donald Trump’s struggles with defeat, one of the main news from the 2020 American Presidential election is Senator Kamala Harris. For the first time in history, a woman—a Black, Asian woman—will become the first female Vice President of the United States. Harris will also rank first in line to succeed Joe Biden as President.

Besides the election of Kamala Harris, women seem to have taken center political stage whether it is in the United States or on the opposite side of the world.

Women actually played a key role in the 2020 American elections a mere 100 years after the 19th amendment of the American Constitution granting women’s suffrage was passed. Fast forward to 2020, 57% of women—and among them 90% of Black women—chose the Democratic candidate over the incumbent President, according to NBC News. Women also voted more than men (52%). In other words, they decided the Presidential outcome and chose Joe Biden although Donald Trump increased his base of white women voters.

Ahead of the Presidential election, another woman, Justice Amy Coney Barrett also made history and became the only the fifth woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court in 230 years. A woman Justice has replaced another one. While it surely seems to be a positive step for women’s empowerment and gender equality, succession might not be as simple as just having a woman leader succeeding another one. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the American champion of women’s rights; based on the 48-year old Justice Barrett’s past judicial positions show, the new Justice is not.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, Mujeres, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Amanda N'Guyen, Amy Coney Barrett, Assouline, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Gayle Kabaker, Habiba Ali, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Joe biden, kamala harris, Martine Assouline, Melanne Verveer, Rouba Mhaissen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saskia Nino de Rivera, Seven, susan collins, Tina brown, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society

One Hundred Women to Inspire Us to Change

Posted on September 14, 2020September 21, 2020by JC AgidLeave a comment

One Hundred Women to Inspire Us to Change
Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower (Assouline)


On September 6, 2020, French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter wrote an editorial in Le Journal du Dimanche, one of France’s main Sunday’s paper to denounce a dangerous post #metoo radical neo-feminism, which she says transforms all women into victims and all men into presumed aggressors. At the same moment in the United States, Assouline and the American foundation Vital Voices published a groundbreaking book with 100 portraits and texts of women ‘using their power to empower.’

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exceptions.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lawyer and former Justice, United States Supreme Court


Their names are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG passed away a few days after this article was published), Melinda Gates, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Bachelet, Geena Davis and Jacinda Ardern. Some have led countries, some head a foundation, one is a US Senator, while another is one of the most powerful judges in the United States. The book also features Panmela Castro, Xiye Bastida, Yin Myo Su, Hindu Oumarou Ibrahim, Andeisha Farid, Amani Ballour, and Tarana Burke. Less known in the Western media, they too run foundations, corporations, paint large murals, engage in politics, and transform the healthcare delivery landscape of their communities.


There are 100 of them in this book edited by Alyse Nelson, President and co-founder of Vital Voices Global Partnerships, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Melanne Verveer, and Madeleine Albright. This Washington-based non for-profit organization works with women in 182 countries to help them become professionally empowered, visible and heard. One hundred portraits painted by Gayle Kabaker, one of the greatest American illustrators, known especially for her New Yorker covers. One hundred women who share their visions, their ambitions, and raise their voices. They could be a thousand, a hundred thousand, millions. In fact, these 100 women leaders, activists, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, diplomats, financiers, biologists, journalists, athletes and artists are de facto ambassadors of half of the world’s population.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Gender Issues, Mujeres, Uncategorized, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Africa, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Assouline, Christine Lagarde, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Gayle Kabaker, Hafsat abiola, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Adern, Lucha Libre, Madeleine Albright, Martine Assouline, Melanne Verveer, Panmela Castro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sara blakely, Saskia Niño de Rivera, Saskia Nino de Rivera, spanx, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower, WIA, WIAphilanthropy, Women in Africa

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