Our delegation of 50 Global Shapers represented cities in 40 countries working on social impact efforts on climate change, education, health care and more.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ultimately, bringing together the world\u2019s leaders once a year is fruitless if it\u2019s not focused on taking action to achieve better results for the children, families and communities without a seat at the table.<\/p>\n

As a young woman of color at the table, it would have been easy to feel marginalized and excluded in the presence of power. Instead, I felt an urgent obligation to speak up, ask tough questions and challenge leaders to do more in service of the greater good. Returning home, I\u2019m reenergized to deepen StriveTogether\u2019s work in communities across America to change the power dynamics and align entire communities\u2019 efforts toward better and more equitable outcomes for every child, cradle to career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every January, around 3,000 global leaders gather at an Alpine ski town in Switzerland to align efforts to improve the state of the world. This year, I had the privilege of being one of them. I was selected as one of 50 young leaders from the Global Shapers Community to participate last month in the\u00a0World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":10121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strivetogether-news","tag-blog","category-228","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n