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Episode #4
Just as business entrepreneurs use cutting-edge innovation to create new products or services, social entrepreneurs innovate to solve social needs. On this episode of Diversity Matters™ we give voice to the stories of women who have survived oppression and genocide to become social entrepreneurs.According to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan “Study after study has shown that there is no effective development strategy in which women do not play a central role. When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier and better fed; their income, savings and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is also true of communities and, in the long run, of whole countries.” Joining co-hosts Richard Friend and Judy Seidenstein is Gretchen Steidle Wallace, who for many years was a successful international investment banker in San Francisco and now invests in social entrepreneurship with genocide survivors in Rwanda, Darfur, and Uganda. Co-author/producer of the book and documentary The Devil Came on Horseback, Gretchen Wallace is also founder of Global Grassroots, an organization which supports the relief of poor, distressed and underprivileged women worldwide through social entrepreneurship, inspiring countless others to act in the name of equality and human rights and ultimately uniting women globally.
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