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BACKGROUND

Empower Women is a project of UN Women that began in 2013. Roxana Damas is one of the selected 2016/2017 Champions for Change to promote the EW platform. The WEELive Event is a campaign designed by Roxana Damas as her championship for the UN Empower Women Project. She has joined forces with coordinating partners from her consulting firm Diversity RD Global, Maica Gil of Heroikka and Galvanize to launch this women's economic empowerment global campaign.

The Problem: The lack of discussions regarding economic empowerment among women and allies from different industries, social, cultural, language, and financial backgrounds. This results in isolation and loss of opportunities for women to develop leadership & influence the world of business and economic structures that ultimately impacts women’s safety, business, leadership, and financial gap.

This project seeks to solve the absence of ongoing mainstream conversations about women’s economic empowerment (WEE) by hosting a one-day global live streaming event (in person) with multiple simultaneous virtual mini events or small discussions hosted in 15 cities around the U.S. and the world led by key partners. The emphasis is to bring visibility and to encourage in-depth discussion about WEE. This project will help create the space for women and allies who do not regularly interact or have discussions globally to build awareness about women in business, economic empowerment, intersectionalities and best practices.