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We delivered on our promise to design a high-impact proof-of-concept for accelerating digital equity on a global scale.

Operating in 12 countries, Girl Rising uses the power of storytelling to change the way the world values girls and their education. I spoke recently with their India chapter’s Nidhi Shukla to learn about the organization’s journey prior to and during COVID-19, their proudest accomplishments, and how all of this has implications for digital equity.

Six weeks after Kofi Bruce was named Chief Financial Officer at General Mills, the pandemic changed the way the company worked. Now, having served in the role for more than a year, we asked him: What were your biggest learnings?

In late May, India was impacted by a severe second wave of the COVID-19. Neera Nundy, Co-founder of Dasra, sprung into action to get support to the most vulnerable communities in the country. 

David Hardy has focused his career on closing educational gaps in school districts across the United States. In years spent working with communities that had been underinvested in, he was always looking deeper at the ecosystem surrounding the children at the schools he was leading.

APEP has been thinking a lot about the power dynamics between funders and grantees.

Michael J. Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College, spoke to the 2017 American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 Fellowship Cohort at the Aspen Institute on August 24, 2017.