For Nigerian Girls, Education Is the Key That Opens Doors to Progress
Raised in Nigeria, AAUW grantee Nnenna Agba gained popularity when she went on the widely watched television show America’s Next Top Model. She holds degrees in chemistry and urban affairs, and she is the face of an NGO that provides Nigerian girls with scholarships. Read more »
Decades Later, a Look Back at a Famous Women’s Conference
When she was young, Dali Tan remembers her father talking about how a Catholic priest saved his life when he was gravely ill as a child in rural China. The […] Read more »
Why Was the 1995 Beijing Conference for Women Groundbreaking? Read a Firsthand Account
Former AAUW president Mary Purcell was at the 1995 U.N. conference in Beijing and wrote about why it was so important for women, girls, and all human rights. Read more »
The Muddy Boots Scientist
My American Fellowship helped me write my dissertation, purchase chemical reagents for experiments, and earn my doctorate. Now, I’m a “science diplomat” working in Kazakhstan and four other former Soviet republics. Read more »
Not All Patriots Are Fighters
AAUW European Fellow Ruth Holden was a young American paleobotanist studying fossilized plant life who later found herself helping to establish war hospitals in Russia. Read more »
Creating Role Models for Women in Nepal
AAUW Fellow Rabita Rajkarnikar works to empower Nepalese women with the skills they need to decrease societal and economic dependence on men. Read more »
Backwoods Adventurer, Endangered Cat Defender, Moose Expert
Kretser calls herself the “token social scientist,” and her work has taken her from Nepal to the Adirondacks to a military training camp to teach soldiers about illegal wildlife products. Read more »
8 AAUW Leaders Launch Projects for Women at CGI U 2014
As a sponsor of Clinton Global Initiative University, AAUW had the honor of bringing a group of eight AAUW-affiliated students to attend CGI U at Arizona State University. Read more »
How Art Helped a Concentration Camp Survivor Heal
Artist and poet Lily Unden spent nearly three years in a Nazi concentration camp. After she was released, she went on to apply for a fellowship to study art at NYU. Read more »
1 Year Later, These Students’ Projects Are Reaching Women around the World
In 2013, we funded 12 women’s commitments to empower women around the world through the Clinton Global Initiative University. Find out where they are now! Read more »
