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Women Catalysts: Inspiring Stories of Global Health Entrepreneurship

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Tue Mar 5, 2024
Washington, DC

Date

Tue Mar 5, 2024
2:30pm – 4:45pm

Location

Washington, DC
Aspen Institute
2300 N Street Northwest #700

Contact

Hosts

  1. Aspen Global Innovators Group

Women play an incredible yet underrepresented role in shaping the global health innovation landscape. Despite pivotal contributions to transformative inventions and advancements, only 28% of the workforce in science and engineering in the United States are women, with a mere 17% receiving venture capital support.

This Women’s History Month, the Aspen Global Innovators Group and MIT Solve invite you to celebrate and commemorate the work of women in innovation, highlighting female social entrepreneurs who are addressing critical issues in health, climate, education, and economics. Alongside applauding their achievements, we will champion ongoing efforts needed to foster an inclusive environment that empowers and supports the success of women in innovation.Women play an incredible yet underrepresented role in shaping the global health innovation landscape. Despite pivotal contributions to transformative inventions and advancements, only 28% of the workforce in science and engineering in the United States are women, with a mere 17% receiving venture capital support.

This Women’s History Month, the Aspen Global Innovators Group and MIT Solve invite you to celebrate and commemorate the work of women in innovation, highlighting female social entrepreneurs who are addressing critical issues in health, climate, education, and economics. Alongside applauding their achievements, we will champion ongoing efforts needed to foster an inclusive environment that empowers and supports the success of women in innovation.

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Danielle Kirby

Danielle is a Finance Associate of Aspen Global Innovators Group

Vrinda Batra

Vrinda Batra is an Administrative and Executive Associate at the Aspen Institute’s Global Innovators Group (AGI). There, she supports AGI’s programs on long-term community resilience that aim to advance global health equity. This includes planning and executing flagship AGI convenings at the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York and the annual Aspen Ideas Health and Festival in Colorado, among others. Vrinda completed her Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University in December 2022, where she worked as an Editorial Assistant for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Her studies focused on gender, development, and security in South Asia. While at Georgetown, Vrinda was also a Research Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and a Graduate Consultant with nonprofit HasNa. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Humanities from O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India.

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